Keywords: Winter
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 06 October 2021
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I’m reminded of George Orwell in smashed-up thoroughly locked-down, wartime London welcoming the first signs of spring amidst the ruins and winter’s lingering cold but wondering whether he should. ‘Is it wicked,’ he asks, ‘to take a pleasure in spring and other seasonal changes? To put it more precisely, is it politically reprehensible?’
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 23 September 2021
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Unlike December 25, September 26 is a World Day that passes by in silence. It calls for the Elimination of all Nuclear Weapons. Nuclear power is too mysterious to understand, too horrific to dwell on, and too far away to take responsibility for. It and its destructive power are unthinkable. And yet it continues to press on us, most recently in the announcement that Australia will build nuclear-powered submarines.
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INFORMATION
Winter Raffle 2021 Winners. The Society of Jesus in Victoria, Jesuit Communications Winter Raffle 2021. Raffle drawn on Wednesday 28 July 2021 (VIC Permit No 10283/21). 1st prize: #147 F McMeniman; 2nd prize: #4819 A Dalton; 3rd prize: #66 R Taylor. All winners have been notified directly. Congratulations to the winners and thank you to everyone who supported our Winter raffle.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Brian Matthews
- 03 June 2021
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Red gum, this ‘smooth-barked large tree that gives watercourses all over Australia their Australian feel’, seemed intent on bobbing up in my life one way or another, sometimes as a result of sheer luck or coincidence.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michele Madigan
- 13 May 2021
9 Comments
A state government has an obligation to do what is possible within the limits of state resources to help its people, to make the state an inclusive place where all have access to essential services and housing. However, over the last few weeks, with the announcement of the funding restructure for homelessness services, this idea of a fair go seems to have dissipated.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Catherine Marshall
- 20 April 2021
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Sitting at my garden table one warm February day watching birds dash from paperbark to Tasmanian blue gum to palm tree, I realised with a satisfying jolt that I had been present for every season of this singular year; I had journeyed in sync with my surroundings on their year-long journey around the sun.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ian C Smith
- 13 April 2021
3 Comments
I flip his collar, air chill, damp, my quick fists burrowing into jacket pockets. I long for an angel with Edie’s face, convent-innocent, unlike mine, who might understand, even share, my boyish dream of making the big time.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Diane Fahey
- 02 March 2021
32 Comments
Only Masaccio, the painter who first used light to sculpt the human form, portrayed this story. The disciple, Peter, walks through a Florentine street past three afflicted men.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jena Woodhouse
- 17 December 2020
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The shepherd wife has one word for her cosmos – isychia: here is isychia, she tells strangers. Without amenities — no water, electricity — her house clings to a small crease in the hills, a tortoise shell; sea forces strips of blue between the planks of outer walls that have no windows to admit the sky, the hills’ harsh beauty.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 08 December 2020
18 Comments
When I was small we spent Christmas camping by a river in NE Victoria. The festivities began on Christmas Eve, when campers and residents of the township of Bright gathered for carols by candlelight. During the singing of my favourite ‘Good King Wenceslas,’ I never wondered about the absence of snow ‘deep and crisp and even.’ I don’t imagine anyone else did, either
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Vasilka Pateras, Barry Gittins, Racheal Chie
- 10 November 2020
Real power never changes hands. And yet like a spell, we cast our votes in a ballot box for the same corrupt government.
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