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Deborah Singerman
- Deborah Singerman
- 17 May 2007
Deborah Singerman is a Sydney-based freelance writer and editor, specialising in the urban environment.
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Trent O'Bryan
- Trent O'Bryan
- 17 May 2007
Trent has a degree in education and a diploma in screenwriting. He has been a long-term student, garbageman, radio ratings compiler, ticket seller, and sullen retail assistant, amongst other things, and is currently a counsellor and unapologetic soap opera junkie.
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Matthew Arkapaw
- Matthew Arkapaw
- 17 May 2007
Matthew lives in north-west Sydney with his wife and two small children. He works as the minister at a suburban baptist church, and has earned degrees in history and theology. He reads Larkin, Hughes, Williams, etc.
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Jonathan Hill
- Jonathan Hill
- 17 May 2007
Jonathan is a qualified teacher who was based in Ngukurr late last year, and Minyerri for the first two terms of this year. He has also worked as a boarding school supervisor in Darwin, with teenage boys from remote communities. In Sydney, he has worked with urban Aboriginies, facilitating an after school activities program at The Block in Redfern. He was last year's winner of Eureka Street's Margaret Dooley Award for Young Writers.
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Colin Long
- Colin Long
- 17 May 2007
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Colin Long lectures in cultural heritage at Deakin University. He is an urban historian with interests in Vietnamese, Lao and Cambodian history and heritage, Australian urban and labour history, and heritage in post-communist societies. He is also the President of the Deakin Branch of the National Tertiary Education Union.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Politically correct dancing
- Richard Leonard
- 02 April 2007
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A new ocker comedy depicts young protégés at a suburban dance school immersing themselves in choreographies about starvation, people dying of AIDS and the nuclear holocaust.
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RELIGION

A wide Brown land shaking off its collective memory
- Brian Matthews
- 23 December 2006
In a country which periodically agonises its way through debates about its history and frets regularly about the quality of history teaching, it is remarkable how resistant we are to embedding notes and pointers on our past in the urban and rural landscapes.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Tower of Babel
- Meg McNena
- 11 December 2006
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Lean Cuisine and single flannelette sheets to the heaven / of anywhere else. Born for higher things, a fair share / of paradise beyond the pale of suburban confinement.
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RELIGION

Lessons for Church in the new Ireland
- Piaras Jackson
- 21 August 2006
History shows how Irish people have relied on the Church in coping with adversity. The 'official' church may now choose to follow where the people have led, into an Ireland that is more diverse, urban and secular than before.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

A planet of slums
- Gary Pearce
- 10 July 2006
Mike Davis' new book belongs to a long tradition of studies of the urban poor – among them, Friedrich Engels’s examination of Victorian Manchester in The Condition of the Working Class in England. Davis updates this genre for a period of globalisation.
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War costs
- Andrew Hamilton
- 01 July 2006
On an Australian autumn day, the human reality of war intrudes only by stealth. At a demonstration, the sound of an air raid siren evokes the terror of those who wait for bombs to fall. In a riverbank exhibition, photographs of love and tenderness hint at all that war destroys.
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Film reviews
- Morag Fraser, Siobhan Jackson, Allan James Thomas
- 22 May 2006
Reviews of the films Monster, The Cat in the Hat, The Barbarian Invasions, and Capturing the Friedmans.
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Keywords: Rba