Section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Thomas Shapcott
- 14 June 2011
2 Comments
He was deaf as a lamppost in the end, so that he never heard a note of it. We listen still, and we hear the sound of what it was like to be alone. We are surrounded. After all these years we have to believe that god was important.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 10 June 2011
7 Comments
Considering the severity of South Australia's mice infestation and earlier plagues of locusts, you can be forgiven for feeling positively biblical. Many Australians, some in 'high places', need climate change to demonstrate its presence with such murderous, repeated efficiency.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 09 June 2011
15 Comments
The Christian Brothers have made efforts to atone for cases of child abuse that occurred in their institutions. That Oranges and Sunshine condemns them universally is due less to malice than to the fact that the filmmaker's sympathies sit squarely with the victims.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Kerry Murphy
- 08 June 2011
9 Comments
Tuc was an officer in the South Vietnamese army. After the war ended in 1975 he was interned by the North Vietnamese for many years, locked up in a hole in the ground. I asked him how he survived. He smiled and pointed to his picture of the Madonna.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Paul Dignam and Jonathan Hadwen
- 07 June 2011
1 Comment
Jesus said 'G'day mate, why don'tcher try a cast off the point there, I had a few bites just now, reckon you'll catch a feed, at least. I'll get the billy on ...'
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 02 June 2011
6 Comments
'Gran' from ABC1's Angry Boys is irreverent enough to be her charges' friend, authoritative enough to demand respect, compassionate enough to earn real affection. Australian comedian Chris Lilley differs from other satirists such as The Chaser. Their humour is often nasty. His is marked by warmth.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
In the tiny church built of ecumenical brick, with barely any aesthetic pleasure to distract from the humility of the message, Patrick and his cohort in both the earlier football match and in the communion to come, sat quietly, though with the telltale legs of novices swinging restlessly under the front pew.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
All day, every day since you have gone, I stand on the road shading my eyes from daylight's harsh reality — you are gone, too far away for me to see. How harsh is your reality?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Karen has just been released from prison and is determined to make a fresh start. This means finding an honest job and reconnecting with her toddler daughter. No easy task for an Aboriginal ex-con whose own mother can't forgive her.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
There was a liberal use of corporal punishment in my school. We were seen as a loutish bunch of lads who needed a firm hand. It did nothing to help my education. You don't create a smart and confident Australia by taking to people with a stick.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Moira Byrne Garton
- 24 May 2011
11 Comments
Upon seeing the steps in front of one big city Catholic cathedral, we looked for disability access. We followed a sign uphill to find the side entrance also had steps. So we made our way to the back of the church, where we discovered a long ramp and a door. We rang the bell and waited. And waited.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
When you tried to walk through the wall you were still living at home. What did you see beyond the opacity of brick? You were so sure it would absorb you that moments passed before reality kicked in ...
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