Section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Alexandra Coghlan
- 16 January 2009
Landscape has long been acknowledged as central to Australian colonial history. In contrast to the harsh conditions endured by
settlers in Sydney Cove, convicts in Tasmania experienced a veritable Eden. (March 2008)
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Telford
- 15 January 2009
the wood-chip mills with gaping jaws strip chew and spit out forests ... protestors gather in city parks to march with banners — promises are processed — pulped (February 2008)
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 13 January 2009
From the time Heath Ledger first stepped onto the Dark Knight set there was talk regarding the brilliance of his performance. His voice is a villainous snarl. His walk is a Quasimodo slouch. His eyes are anarchic. Ledger's joker is a force of nature. (July 2008)
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Malcolm King
- 13 January 2009
Even though the university was now in phase seven of its Orwellian audit on 'where money was coming from and where it was going', they still had not yet twigged that there was a cell of book buying anarchists wearing sensible shoes in their midst. (February 2008)
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Mendes
- 09 January 2009
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Benny Morris, Israel's best-known revisionist historian, led more and more Israelis and Diaspora Jews in the 1980s to accept
the legitimacy of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and
Gaza Strip. Morris has changed his spots. (September 2008)
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 08 January 2009
2 Comments
In life and art Nick Cave is drawn to the potent territory where the sacred meets the profane. Steve McQueen's brutal, beautiful portrait of Irish republican prisoners of an uncaring Thatcher government achieves a similar transcendence. (October 2008)
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 07 January 2009
4 Comments
The rumoured potential of the Large Hadron Collider to bring about the disintegration of the universe captured the public imagination. 'Hadron' is a word susceptible to misprinting of a kind that destroys the seriousness of any discussion. (September 2008)
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Isabella Fels
- 06 January 2009
1 Comment
I love the way you go from fat to thin ... Straight to curly (October 2008)
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Dorothy A. Lee
- 23 December 2008
6 Comments
Feminist biblical scholars ask two fundamental questions of the biblical nativity story. First they ask how female characters
are portrayed.
Second, they ask how these biblical myths can be reinterpreted in a woman-friendly (rather than misogynist) way.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michael McVeigh
- 19 December 2008
2 Comments
Life here leaves characters little time for introspection or philosophy. When politics finds its way into the strips, it's done in typically irreverent country style. Footrot Flats is one thing Australians could never steal from our nearby neighbours.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 18 December 2008
1 Comment
Having grown up an orphan in a Mumbai slum, Jamal is an unlikely candidate for Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. A sense of the divine pervades the film, but while Jamal seems destined for good fortune, his brother Salim diverges towards corruption.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 17 December 2008
1 Comment
I don't support the view that cab drivers are sources of homespun wisdom and arcane knowledge. Australian cabbies are an amiable, diverse lot, not
given to philosophy, though I encountered one spectacular exception.
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