Section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Alison Sampson
- 02 November 2011
22 Comments
'Did I have a brother once?' asks a little boy, no longer sure. His mother's eyes fill with tears. 'Yes, darling. A long time ago, you had a baby brother of your own.' He shouts triumphantly, 'I did have a brother!' and runs off. We mothers glance at each other, then look away. There are no words.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Marlene Marburg
- 01 November 2011
24 Comments
Two blessings, one resurrected, one still in the tomb. We are not pre-Vatican. We think whole, body and soul ... We are not parrots in a pew trembling.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 27 October 2011
4 Comments
At its heart is an act of violence against a child. But on the whole The Slap stands as an epic parable of middle class Australia. The tagline 'Whose side are you on?' is a furphy: it is impossible to wholly sympathise with any character.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Helen Hagemann
- 25 October 2011
He drew fear from flood and seedless sun. She traded contradiction for curves and valley hips, verdant sod of earth, reckless drift of goats. When the bailiff came, the end of lamb and beef, she clung to rock and let the salt erupt ...
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 20 October 2011
In 2002, jockey Damien Oliver rode to Melbourne Cup glory, one week after his brother, Jason, was killed in a racing incident. The Cup, a paean to the Golden Age of Australian cinema, recreates the tragic and inspirational events in style.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jane Jervis-Read
- 19 October 2011
6 Comments
Every night the devil gave birth to roast chickens and jacket potatoes and gallons of wine which it swilled and gobbled, sucking the oil from its fingers. It shrugged when the man and dog refused the steaming food. They always refused it, for they knew where it came from.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Shane McCauley
- 18 October 2011
2 Comments
Mist moves here, cloaking statues, mild giants that haunt and wait... the slave breathes towardhis freedom.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Vin Maskell
- 12 October 2011
9 Comments
'I've been looking after Vera since 1996. I wasn't going to stop because of glandular fever.' Clyde and I talk sport and the weather but Vera's always on his mind. 'Her memory's gone. I only ask her one question each day. I say, Who's your best mate? And she looks at me as if I'm stupid!'
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ARTS AND CULTURE
She would be aghast, at the weeping litany of my sins... From the moment the apron string is cut, we are free to be. And to bring, make or undo, whatever the hell we want to.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 06 October 2011
The redevelopment of Melbourne's St Kilda Triangle was pursued with little regard for community concerns. The Triangle Wars is a story of democracy undermined, then reasserted, as 'the people' rise to confront a government that has lost sight of the interests of those they are supposed to represent.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Rod Pattenden
- 05 October 2011
12 Comments
Controversial Fairfax art critic John McDonald is scathing in his assessment of the 60th Blake Prize for Religious Art. His frustrated search for traditional religious symbols in the works reveals a lack of understanding of the role of images within Australia’s living religious imagination.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 05 October 2011
7 Comments
One time my brother Kevin and our father had a fistfight. Our sister herded the kids into a back room, made us kneel and pray. We could hear crashing; sometimes I still hear crashing when I pray. In his 50s Kevin, who I loved but sometimes disliked, got sick. It looks like he will die before Christmas.
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