Section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
It's time to scrutinise the rapid rise of the 'shopping green' movement in the US and elsewhere, and assess the sum total of its effect on the environment. By buying bottled water, organic food, or sunscreen, consumers are arguably shutting the healthy individual in and the threatening world out.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 13 February 2008
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This week we heard that the Ten Network has snared the rights to the forthcoming Indian Premier League series from Channel Nine. For three decades, broadcast cricket has been synonymous with Nine, which has delivered many advances including 'stump cam'.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Lach-Newinsky
- 12 February 2008
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candles and candle holders for funeral ceremony.. hand bouquet for the deceased.. coffin storage fee at cemetery cool room.. technical cremation fee
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Sophie Rudolph
- 08 February 2008
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The new biography of former South Australian Governor Dame Roma Mitchell paints a picture of a tenacious, committed woman, supported by her strong Catholic faith, but willing to challenge and explore any doctrine that stifled people's (and particularly women's) right to make choices about their lives.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 07 February 2008
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Satisfaction takes place in a high-class city brothel, where demand is high and prices are higher. But it's more a matter of 'normalise' than 'glamorise'. The workers' everyday conflicts are exacerbated by the nature of their profession.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Patrick Dodson
- 06 February 2008
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Many Australians want to go into the next century feeling we've done our bit to contribute to reconciliation. But there are some who would dash it to the ground, or turn it into something else. [Eureka Street December 1997]
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- P. S. Cottier
- 05 February 2008
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Seven kids and a parrot in a small terrace house.. One sudden day, they spread wings.. Better those times than the perfect couple's renovating din..
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Malcolm King
- 04 February 2008
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In October 1998, the writer raided departmental library budgets in order to place in his university library, $27,000 worth of books he believed it should own. Before leaving his job, he inspected the books in the library and was convinced he had "done good by doing bad".
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Terry Monagle
- 01 February 2008
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Michael Bernard Kelly undergoes the personal struggle to reconcile his own deep faith with being proudly gay. He
then takes up the fight for acceptance of gays in the Catholic Church.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 31 January 2008
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Sweeney Todd is a cautionary tale, but it's more than that. Todd's ultimatetragedy is that his all-consuming quest for revenge blinds him to thethings that could make him happy again.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
A new exhibition of compelling and confronting photographs captures the impact of natural disasters and other humanitarian emergencies, and the crucial role of Australian aid workers and volunteers in the initial response and longer term rebuilding process.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Robin Koning
- 24 January 2008
14 Comments
Too often, generic statements about missionaries colluding with colonialism and destroying indigenous cultures are presumed to say all that needs to be said. Detailed study of mission history is essential if we are to move beyond the clichés.
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