Keywords: Paul Williamson
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AUSTRALIA
While much of the world drifts toward political extremes, Australia did something quietly radical: it chose the centre. In a night of subdued triumphs and unexpected grace, it was a reminder that democracy’s strength may still lie in its capacity for moderation, mercy, and surprise.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Paul Williamson
- 16 May 2024
Could a storm burst / because butterfly wings beat / a thousand miles away / to tip dominos of change / so the future emerges / like in the Chaos theory we use / to estimate future weather?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Paul Williamson
- 14 September 2023
1 Comment
Perhaps we were too directive / as we tried to guide while staying connected / with one so young, distracted. Yet there was response. Rules relaxed to laughter / as through best and worst we mucked / together; skills and knowledge grew / living side by side.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Paul Williamson
- 27 April 2023
The bakery is clean and bright, service cheerful. Mother waits at the counter while her daughter brews coffee. Cooking is done out the back / to fill the cut-back menu / and maintain the family’s dream. The business survives as well as most.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Paul Williamson
- 16 November 2022
3 Comments
Along the tree lined rural highway / past paddocks where canola gleams / so cars stop for golden photographs / past paddocks where sheep graze / then clumps of darker remnant eucalypts / distant hills wear dancing patches of colour.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Paul Williamson
- 19 May 2020
1 Comment
The dweller in the bone attic holds countryside as home; thinks of food, safety, health and warmth for family, self and group. Frenetic scuffles rage in the brick canyons where the hunt is commerce and food constructed.
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RELIGION
- Desmond O'Grady
- 11 March 2013
2 Comments
The internationalisation of the papacy over the past 35 years has been accompanied by an Italianisation of the Vatican media coverage, particularly in Benedict's reign. Vatican coverage reads like Italian political stories with smear campaigns, back-biting, wild accusations and turf wars.
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AUSTRALIA
- Paul Cleary
- 20 August 2009
10 Comments
The first feature length film about Indonesia's invasion of East Timor and the deaths of six Australian journalists fails to inform the audience of the diplomatic dirty tricks, and Australian and American complicity.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 14 May 2009
2 Comments
Good
intentions are not enough. Gone should be the days when Aboriginals are marginal to the corridors of power. Perhaps it will not be until we have seen the first Aboriginal Prime
Minister that agitators for Indigenous justice will be vindicated.
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 02 February 2009
19 Comments
Pope Benedict's decision to lift the excommunication of four dissident
Bishops has caused controversy. The decision raises wider questions about the unity of
the Catholic Church, which bear on a current conflict within the Church in Brisbane.
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AUSTRALIA
- Eureka Street editors
- 03 July 2006
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