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ARTS AND CULTURE

Eye on the messy ethics of drone warfare
- Tim Kroenert
- 24 March 2016
5 Comments
With more than 30 dead in Brussels just a few short months after the horrors in Paris, the Western world again confronts an assailant in ISIS who deals in fear and bloodshed. In contemplating our responses to such attacks we recognise the historical and current geopolitical realities that have bred the ideologies that fuel them. This messiness is the stuff of a new British film that arrives in Australia this week, which explores the plight of those who might be 'collateral damage' in the hyper-technological 'war on terror'.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Making a mess of civil rights history
- Tim Kroenert
- 24 October 2013
The idea of viewing the American civil rights movement through the eyes of an African-American butler, ensconced for decades at the White House in the service of eight different presidents, is tantalising. How disappointing then that The Butler is such a sloppy, soppy mess. And with all due respect to Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey is a big part of the problem.
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AUSTRALIA

Labor goes from Robin Hood to the Sheriff of Nottingham
- John Falzon
- 17 May 2013
9 Comments
You don't build someone up by putting them down. You don't help someone into employment by pushing them into poverty. By keeping the unemployment benefit low, successive governments have deliberately humiliated people rather than improving their chances.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Harry Potter's dark days
- Tim Kroenert
- 18 November 2010
1 Comment
The youths take fearful strides into adulthood, embracing responsibility through necessity, unprotected by parents, teachers or mentors. Like many fictional 'chosen ones', Harry Potter is an allegorical Christ figure.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Who hates Harry Potter
- Tim Kroenert
- 16 July 2009
4 Comments
The rule seems to be that one's attitude to Harry Potter should be either obsession, derision, or total lack of interest. If that's true, I'm in a minority: I am an equivocal fan. A few of the books are great. At least one is bloody awful. The movies are similarly hit-and-miss.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Oppression by unresolved grief
- Tim Kroenert
- 31 January 2008
1 Comment
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

Film reviews
- Morag Fraser, Brett Evans, Juliette Hughes, Gordon Lewis
- 08 July 2006
Reviews of the films The Quiet American; Tadpole; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; Lovely & Amazing and The Fellowship of the Ring (extended version DVD).
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Film reviews
- Morag Fraser, Zane Lovitt, Allan James Thomas
- 25 April 2006
Reviews of the films Land Mines, A Love Story; The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; 9 Songs and Downfall.
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Keywords: Rickman