Section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
... is up to something, but will not reveal that tricksy intention ... it listens for the starting gun in the hands of a distant God.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ellena Savage
- 12 April 2013
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The phrase 'white men saving brown women from brown men' derides the use of western feminist tropes to further colonial expansion. The anti-Islamic reaction of some feminist activists to the death threats suffered by Tunisian 'naked protestor' Amina Tyler does nothing to promote global solidarity among women.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 11 April 2013
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A Rabbi informs Joseph that although he has been circumcised and celebrated his Bah Mitzvah, the revelations about his biological origins mean he must undergo 'cleansing' rituals to be accepted as a Jew. Religious institutions err when they elevate legalism over human need. In this instance the institution is found wanting.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brendan Ryan
- 09 April 2013
7 Comments
The straggly lines of his arguments follow cow paths ... He laughs as much as he spits. Veins in his cheeks, grey hair testament to frosty mornings, a bull bowling his wife over in the yard ... My father had developed a bad habit of listening.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 08 April 2013
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Adrian Lyons, founding editor of Eureka Street, died last week. In life he strove to go beneath the surface when reflecting on personal and public issues, and to attend to the unnoticed connections between culture and faith, and the surprising places where they come together in public life.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Barry Gittins and Jen Vuk
- 05 April 2013
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I know and love people who struggle with depression. I've lost friends to suicide. Depression was my constant companion at times and suicide an alluring, far country. A recent novel delves into the life of a family reeling from the suicide of a child, and shows that even in the deepest recesses of grief, joy can interrupt.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 04 April 2013
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Stéphanie loses her legs in a workplace accident. Alain is a single father who becomes her confidante. Their sexual encounters are shown to restore and affirm her dignity; they highlight the physicality of the act, particularly how Stéphanie's confidence in her own changed body flourishes through it.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
In 1999 my 22-year-old daughter sustained a head injury in a motor vehicle accident. She now contends with the use of only one normally functioning limb amid multiple disabilities. The 'support' provided by family carers is said to save the nation billions of dollars annually. But carers give much more than support.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Saba Hakim, Ray Carmichael and Ouyang Yu
- 02 April 2013
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We have wished to invade Australia like you'd never imagined from where we are based in Pakistan and Afghanistan, countries reduced by hegemony to hell. We ruled the waves till we were in sight of an island that looked from afar like a welcome entity.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Bronwyn Evans
- 26 March 2013
A wooden sturdy poker, it helped on the days when you couldn't feel the floor, but was no substitute for a seat on the tram when you don't look sick or expecting.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 21 March 2013
8 Comments
Fr Murphy's atrocities include using the confessional as a lair in which to abuse his deaf students. With the Royal Commission already gathering steam, Silence in the House of God warns what revelations may be to come, and reminds those with high hopes for Pope Francis how much work remains to be done.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peta Edmonds
- 19 March 2013
2 Comments
On the corner, like an unloved spider, if you've got a cigarette, they've got the lighter. They're in love with all the Gods. They get along with their bong. For them the smoke is the Holy Ghost.
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