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Keywords: Women In Sport

  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Bettie Page, the tease from Tennessee

    • Madeleine Hamilton
    • 02 April 2007

    Bettie Page experiences an equal, if not greater, level of popularity today than she did during the peak of her career as a pin-up model in the early to mid 1950s. But the exploitative, even dangerous, aspects of her work, should not be pushed out of sight and forgotten.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Warne's world of Hollywood and the modern Ashes

    • Binoy Kampmark
    • 22 January 2007
    3 Comments

    Whatever criticisms have been levelled against Warnie, he is seen as the reviver of cricket. For better or worse, he brought cricket up-to-speed with other sports, in terms of quality, and scandal. Whatever criticisms have been levelled against Warnie, Australians remain loyal to his superiority. Warne is seen as the reviver of cricket, bringing slow bowling back from the desert.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The Consolations of Biography

    • Peter Rose
    • 08 July 2006

    Peter Rose on writing Rose Boys.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Caught behind

    • Alex McDermott
    • 08 July 2006
    2 Comments

    Alex McDermott examines Brett Hutchins’ Don Bradman: Challenging the Myth.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Film reviews

    • Annelise Balsamo, Gordon Lewis, Juliette Hughes
    • 24 June 2006

    Reviews of the films Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle; Autofocus; Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and A Mighty Wind.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Driving the tide

    • Jack Waterford
    • 11 June 2006

    In America, the political scientists are trying to attract the NASCAR dads—the sort of guys who are fans of racing cars. ‘NASCAR dads’ was once used to describe small-town and rural men.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Morning in East Timor

    • Morag Fraser
    • 27 April 2006

    Traces of Rome have become part of the scenery.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Human traffic

    • Georgina Costello
    • 25 April 2006

    Many Thai women come to Australia on the promise of a work visa and a well-paid job, but end up in brothels.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Sundays in Stornoway

    • Martin Elliott
    • 23 April 2006

    Locals might find it boring, but this visitor to the Outer Hebrides found more than enough to make the sabbath special

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Quick reviews

    • Emily Millane, Ali Lemer, Joel Townsend
    • 23 April 2006

    Reviews of the books Snowy River Story: The Grassroots Campaign to Save a National Icon; Yarra: A Diverting History of Melbourne’s Murky River; and A Short History of Myth.

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