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Iceland's ash cloud of the apocalypse
- Brian Matthews
- 19 May 2010
9 Comments
If Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano erruption was disruptive, its cousin Katla may have worse in store. Volcanoes, emanating a kind of preternatural, primal, patience, are landlords whose unchanging message is: you are renting; you haven't bought.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Fatherhood after the apocalypse
- Tim Kroenert
- 04 February 2010
5 Comments
The blurring of right and wrong in a world where civil structures have disintegrated, is seen in the Man's escalating wildness; his desperation to preserve the life of his son, and his conviction that the end of survival justifies a growing list of dubious means.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Cannibal convict's tour of hell
- Tim Kroenert
- 24 September 2009
1 Comment
The first feature film about Australia's most notorious convict shares a potent symbiosis with Dante's Inferno. Director Jonathan auf der Heide believes there is a repressed need for violence beneath the 'veil' of human civilisation.
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AUSTRALIA

Getting a grip on swine flu hysteria
- Michael Mullins
- 04 May 2009
3 Comments
The Herald Sun's Andrew Bolt has provided a welcome critique of 'pig flu' fear-mongering by the Australian media. But he falls into a similarly myopic trap that misses the global perspective.
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AUSTRALIA

Pakistan is not doomed
- Kimberley Layton
- 03 April 2009
1 Comment
In due course the Taliban problem will be confronted and hopefully resolved, but not before the internal political situation stabilises. Patience is a virtue in Pakistan. The situation is not improving quickly, but it does seem to be improving.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Uncreation story
- Val Yule
- 12 August 2008
3 Comments
Mountains and hills! Men bore, quarry and scalp them .. Fruit trees and cedars! Men spray them and clearfell them .. Beasts and cattle! Men extinguish or factory-farm them .. Creeping things and flying birds! Men wipe them out also.
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AUSTRALIA

Cardinal Pell's views on climate change are his own
- Michael Mullins
- 31 October 2007
4 Comments
Cardinal Pell does not underscore his climate change denial with theological justification, as he does with his position on issues such as human cloning. It is unfair to him, and to the Catholic Church, to assume that his personal views on climate change represent Church teaching.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

A brief history of the car bomb
- Gary Pearce
- 18 May 2007
A new book shows how the history of a technology can be used for exploring some of the key forces and events of an age. The future could have us all living in red zones, and subject to surveillance, police checks and suspended civil liberties.
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ENVIRONMENT

Climate change - it's the apocalypse, stupid
- Mark Byrne
- 27 February 2007
1 Comment
Like many other politicians and scientists, the man who "used to be the next President of the United States" thinks that "the most serious crisis ever confronting human civilisation is this climate crisis". At the same time, in An Inconvenient Truth, the documentary about his travelling climate change slide show, Al Gore laments his failure to have shifted US government policy on the issue.
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AUSTRALIA

Slow progress with North Korea is better than no progress
- Joseph Camilleri
- 30 October 2006
8 Comments
The North Korean regime is more likely to be loosened from its present grip on power by the slow but persistent attempts to change the economic and psychological landscape inside North Korea, than by the external application of brute force.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Worth a fatwa?
- Peter Pierce & Catherine Pierce
- 02 July 2006
Has Michel Houellebecq earned the criticism that has come his way?
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Ethics in a time of terror
- Godfrey Moase
- 08 May 2006
Godfrey Moase reviews Peter Singer’s The president of good & evil and Patricia Marchak’s Reigns of Terror.
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Keywords: Apocalypse