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Keywords: Elsternwick

ARTS AND CULTURE

Would-be nun's Holocaust history
- Tim Kroenert
- 31 October 2013
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On the eve of taking her vows as a nun, 18-year-old novice Ida learns that she is Jewish. This sets her on a journey of self-discovery as she seeks to, literally, uncover the bones of her past, which has its roots in the Holocaust. It is timely to reflect on these matters in the wake of last weekend's anti-semitic violence in Bondi. It is better to grasp the bones of truth than walk in pious ignorance past the mass graves of history.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Australia's suburban revolution
- Tim Kroenert
- 06 October 2011
The redevelopment of Melbourne's St Kilda Triangle was pursued with little regard for community concerns. The Triangle Wars is a story of democracy undermined, then reasserted, as 'the people' rise to confront a government that has lost sight of the interests of those they are supposed to represent.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Models for a good life and an honest death
- Clive O'Connell
- 16 October 2006
Historian Inga Clendinnen's reviews, childhood recollections, multi-coloured reminiscences of her working career, and informed discourse on simple events or complex ideas, are collected in a way that reveals a tempered tolerance seemingly inherited from her favourite essayist, Montaigne.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Of passion and belief
- Juliette Hughes
- 31 May 2006
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Juliette Hughes looks at the impact of The Passion of the Christ.
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