Section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Roger Trowbridge
- 05 September 2007
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The old EJ was a last link to Betty. It was her pride and joy. She’d wash and polish it with the care most people reserved for their children. Betty had none. She was a "spinster".
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Pierce
- 22 August 2007
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Future Perfect is ABC broadcaster Robyn Williams' sketch of much that imperils the human future. Whatever flaws and fancies there may have been in God's blueprint, Williams does surprisingly little to produce projections of his own.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 22 August 2007
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Bernard Hickey devoted his life to the cause of Australian literature and Australian culture in Europe, often at the cost of great personal sacrifice. He was known, loved and profoundly respected wherever Australian writing and literary culture were studied.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Taking the long route home to night / through number and colour and form; / ghosting, becoming, the silence, / we shatter and drink the light.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 22 August 2007
The Jammed is a frank and gritty cinematic reminder that the issue of human trafficking is not just on Australia’s doorstep—tragically, it’s part of the furniture. The most unsettling human degradation is protected by walls of silence and secrecy, and is the oxygen that keeps the sex industry alive.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gary Pearce
- 08 August 2007
Nobel laureate Günter Grass’s memoir became controversial last year due to revelations that he had been a member of the Waffen SS. It reveals that he feels both intimately connected with, and uncomprehending of, his younger self.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jaya Savige
- 08 August 2007
How could they intuit the pricelessness of a warm welcome? / benign as Mugabe, market forces the not-so-new religion
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 08 August 2007
The director of a new Australian film on the migration experience depicts the resilience of childhood. He also aims to evoke from his audience a degree of compassion for a difficult, struggling mother.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Trevor was having trouble getting his big bay gelding called Clive, aka ‘The Flyer’, into his float. Clive was meant to be at the races in a couple of hours, but he was snorting and stamping and being distinctly uncooperative. Clive was trying to tell him something.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 25 July 2007
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This year marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Britain. Social justice organisations around the world are using the film Amazing Grace to put a spotlight on the modern trade in human trafficking.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Steele
- 25 July 2007
A poem recollecting visits to the Jesuit-run Belvedere College, in the north of Dublin, where James Joyce had most of his secondary schooling.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michael Mullins
- 25 July 2007
The Australian character is set against that of the European nations from which the 'new Australians' arrived after World War II. For them, Australia offered "considerably safety and little menace", but heavily curtained windows rather than dancing in the streets they were accustomed to.
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