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ARTS AND CULTURE

Cinema: the secular temple
- Barbara Creed and Richard Leonard
- 18 March 2009
3 Comments
People have stopped going to church, but they still have an eye for and an expectation of the mystical. At the cinema, spectators, primed by the structures of the cinema itself, enter into a mystical experience with the shadow world being played out before them.
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AUSTRALIA

Gay 'justice' suits pragmatic pollies
- Deborah Singerman
- 07 October 2008
9 Comments
Gay equality is a touchstone by which to measure politicians' moderate credentials. Turnbull's support is not totally altruistic: the inner-Sydney seat he represents has one of Australia's largest gay and lesbian populations.
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AUSTRALIA

‘Lazarus with a triple bypass’ could well become Harry Houdini
- John Warhurst
- 22 August 2007
6 Comments
While this election is still there to be won or lost, Labor is rightfully the hot favourite. But changes of government are rare in Australian politics, and there are four reasons why Labor might still lose.
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AUSTRALIA

Why change Aborigines into images of ourselves?
- Brian McCoy
- 24 December 2006
2 Comments
It was one thing for some of our politicians to reveal that they clearly misunderstand Aboriginal people and their culture. It is quite another thing when a reporter goes to live in a community for ten days and thinks she got the measure of 'the cultural and social issues at play'. From 22 August 2006.
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AUSTRALIA

Why change Aborigines into images of ourselves?
- Brian McCoy
- 21 August 2006
12 Comments
It was one thing for some of our politicians to reveal that they clearly misunderstand Aboriginal people and their culture. It is quite another thing when a reporter goes to live in a community for ten days and thinks she got the measure of 'the cultural and social issues at play'.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Tall tales, but true
- Kristie Dunn
- 04 July 2006
Kristie Dunn reviews Dark Victory by David Marr and Marian Wilkinson.
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