Keywords: The Australian Dream
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 31 May 2010
18 Comments
Gillard has all it takes to be an excellent prime minister. Her best
chance of gaining that position might be from opposition. This would
mean Labor losing in 2010 and rising from the ashes in 2013 under her
leadership.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
mapping the cobbled Parisian dawn .. in search of juxtaposition .. stairways,
upturned street vendors' carts .. unglamorous prostitutes, pedlars .. the
stillness of odd, aged architecture .. angles, spaces awash with light
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Tony is the working class underdog battling to excel in a sport
dominated by private school boys. The temptation for the poor westie Tony to engage in petty crime is a
cliché too far, but does help to highlight the social structures that
define Tony's world.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Vin Maskell
- 31 March 2010
12 Comments
The Chinese couple had kept the shop going for ten years at a time when
milk bars have been disappearing off the map.
In my two decades in this suburb about eight corner shops have closed.
And in the past three years Peter's milk bar, like his wife, was just
hanging on.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 19 March 2010
4 Comments
The challenges and opportunities are to fund equitably all
networks in education and to ensure that robust morale and community
engagement are hallmarks of all parts of the network, including state
schools and emerging schools such as Muslim schools.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Harvey
- 19 March 2010
2 Comments
The poet Rainer Maria Rilke's 'God', writes Stephanie Dowrick, 'is a vulnerable neighbour one moment, like a clump
of a hundred roots the next; an ancient work of art, then a
much-needed hand, a cathedral, a dreamer. Absent here, breath-close
there; as often in darkness as in light.'
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AUSTRALIA
- Sarah Kanowski
- 16 March 2010
21 Comments
The Professor of Work and Organisational Studies at Sydney University says Abbott's plan would 'catapult Australia from having no scheme at all to probably being the best scheme in the world'. So why am I, a passionate believer in paid parental leave, not rejoicing?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Charlotte Clutterbuck
- 02 March 2010
5 Comments
now because of you kneeling .. beside me, thumbing the scarred leather .. of the little mass-book your grandmother .. hid at the back of her Protestant linen-press
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