Section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Australia leads the world
in mammalian extinction and in threatened species. The rag-tag group of contributors to Boom & Bust provide a timely scientific reminder that the fate
of birds is inextricably tied to our own.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 25 June 2009
6 Comments
Jack Charles is an Aboriginal elder, professional actor and part-time criminal. He describes his acts of burglary as 'collecting the rent' from white suburbanites who dwell on what could rightfully be considered Aboriginal land.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Eleanor Massey
- 24 June 2009
5 Comments
Neither lapsed nor nominal, but wandering — squizzing through
church doors to check the whereabouts of altar, cross and candlesticks,
before slipping into the back row. Last up to Communion, first out the door. A True Anglican.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- David McCooey
- 23 June 2009
Your ribs cast a tent of
.. light, dramatic and impossible .. your bifurcated brain .. the chambers of your heart .. your spine, your face — surprisingly familiar and haunting
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Roanna Gonsalves
- 23 June 2009
36 Comments
Vincent and I were both international students
from Bombay. He had lived here for a year while I had only arrived
three months ago. We worked in the same Indian restaurant. The night of his attack, Vincent sounded upbeat on the train.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Kerry Murphy
- 19 June 2009
The US strategy now recognises that success in an insurgency conflict is slow. It can only take place when the occupying forces realise the important thing is to protect the Iraqi people, not to focus on killing the 'bad guys'.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 18 June 2009
10 Comments
Despite the best wishes of many, we are yet to resolve the injustices that have resulted from White Australia's brand of apartheid. As Disgrace reveals, reconciliation is more than words. There is much fear and anger to overcome.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 17 June 2009
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The mysterious stain on the kitchen floor was evoking obscure feelings of unease and
danger. What was happening in the cosmos that could be making me feel that way? A hell of a lot, as it turned out.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tom Petsinis
- 16 June 2009
2 Comments
It's a decade since you died .. But they remain, a legacy of sorts .. I see you in the shape of my hand .. Rummaging for the nail .. That crucifies father to son
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Shahram Akbarzadeh
- 12 June 2009
3 Comments
Benny Morris'
earlier concern with the Palestinian national narrative
has given way to an overarching concern with the promotion of the
Jewishness of Israel. This comes at the expense of Palestinian national
aspirations.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Paul Collins
- 11 June 2009
12 Comments
Thomas Berry (1914-2009), Catholicism's most significant thinker in ecological theology, argued that religion had failed to provide a way of making sense of the cosmos. Christians oppose homicide, but have no morality to deal with the killing of the planet.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 11 June 2009
2 Comments
Sister Carmel Wauchope is a Sister of the Good
Samaritan and lives up to that name. Outraged
by the conditions faced by asylum seekers in detention in Australia, she has spent years visiting detainees and
advocating on their behalf.
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