Keywords: Australian Fashion
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brendan Ryan
- 09 November 2010
At the IGA, the woman at the check-out peppers her speech with Darl. Her friendliness, the way she packs my plastic bags, greets me two days later – a connection Facebook can’t provide.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 22 September 2010
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Once upon a time a man told me that he had gone ahead and married his wife, even though he knew he didn't love her. 'But why?' I asked, mystified, for surely living with someone you are not in love with is the hardest thing in the world. 'Because it wasn't important,' he replied.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Myrna Tonkinson
- 20 August 2010
The women assemble to sing, dance, tell stories; thus the elders induct
younger women into the religious
knowledge and rituals that are shared across a wide area.
Yuwani Annie's origin story blends a Yanyuwa version with the biblical Adam and Eve story.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Juliette Peers
- 06 August 2010
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The Power Without Glory
trial ought to be read as a high-profile
and long lasting punishment meted out to traitors to a so-called
Australian normality. Frank Hardy's acquittal
and the campaign to defend his novel partly belong to mid 20th century
Australia's strong anti-Catholic undertow.
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ENVIRONMENT
- T. J. Martin
- 20 July 2010
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I believed it was not right to manufacture human embryos for research,
but I decided to use scientific arguments against this. In fact that
made the task easier. It was truly astonishing to see how regularly very
bad science was presented publicly by scientists who wanted to do such
work.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 07 July 2010
Fr Frank Brennan's address to the Melbourne College of Divinity
Centenary Conference, Trinity College, University of Melbourne, 6 July
2010.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 07 July 2010
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Kevin Rudd stood in the forecourt of Parliament
House Canberra and recalled with great emotion the morning on which he
had welcomed the members of the Stolen Generations. There was no mistaking his sense of solidarity: he knew there and then what it was to be dispossessed,
alienated and outcast.
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AUSTRALIA
As a child of migrant parents, I was taught to respect
my elders, to view each wrinkle as the mark of wisdom and a full head of silvery hair as the ultimate badge of honour. I wonder how those in their twilight years feel about young celebrities dying their hair grey in the name of fashion?
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AUSTRALIA
- Aurelien Mondon
- 23 April 2010
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As Anzac Day approaches, Australian flags adorn our streets. To many, this display of nationalism is inoffensive and appears even as a sign of
cohesion. But it may also be a worrying facet of the growing appeal
found in exclusionary identity politics.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 22 March 2010
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Text from Fr Frank Brennan SJ's presentation Poverty and
Plenty: Where Do or Should Christians Stand? at the Centre for an
Ethical Society as part of the 2010 Series Forum at the Australian
Centre for Christianity and Culture, 17 March 2010.
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AUSTRALIA
- Georgina Laidlaw
- 16 February 2010
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Despite damnation, bombs and climate change, the truffle continues to
prove that peasants can eat like kings — just not in Australia where, priced at up to $3500 a kilo, it has been typecast as an indulgence of the
wealthy.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 10 February 2010
11 Comments
Each unhappy family is unhappy in its
own way.
My family seemed happy enough, but when my mother died my father rejected his children. As I contemplated a reunion I wondered if he would recognise me. It had been seven years and he had recently been diagnosed with dementia.
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