Keywords: Australian Fashion
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AUSTRALIA
- Ellena Savage
- 04 January 2010
18 Comments
She'd rather be wearing jeans, but is compelled to dress like a Christmas tree for
the Spring Racing Carnival. Her desire to be desired for the depth of her
cleavage is nominated by the designs of men in her society. No wonder some Muslim women feel the hijab subverts patriarchy. November 2009
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INFORMATION
- Gerard Goldman and Terry Lovat
- 24 November 2009
It has been suggested,
but surely not seriously, that the public university’s prime motive in
including theology among its disciplines might be around financial
benefit.
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AUSTRALIA
- Ellena Savage
- 03 November 2009
21 Comments
She'd rather be wearing jeans, but is compelled to dress like a Christmas tree for
the Spring Racing Carnival. Her desire to be desired for the depth of her
cleavage is nominated by the designs of men in her society. No wonder some Muslim women feel the hijab subverts patriarchy.
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MEDIA
Quality television for children is widely regarded as a good idea. But not all children's TV has their best interests at heart. The ABC3 kids channel, which could receive funding in next week's Federal Budget, is an important step, but may not address all concerns.
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank O'Shea
- 29 April 2009
If you can find a person who can execute a Reverse Squeeze or a Scissors Coup at the bridge table, chances are they will be able to carry out equivalent manoeuvres in a loving relationship.
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AUSTRALIA
- Madeleine Hamilton
- 09 January 2009
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the first showing of Christian Dior's New Look fashion designs in Sydney. After years of wartime material restraints the New Look offered Australian women a fresh way of expressing their individuality and sensuality through fashion. (March 2008)
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 18 December 2008
2 Comments
Last Christmas, rookie Prime Minister Rudd could not afford to take a holiday. This year, following dismal December opinion polls, it's Turnbull who may need to forgo a break as he gets the Coalition house in order.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 11 December 2008
1 Comment
Of the notorious Australian low-budget genre films of the 1970s and 1980s, few would feature 'social commentary' as a selling point. But then, few have the distinction of being based on a Peter Carey short story.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 10 December 2008
5 Comments
Sixty years on, it is fashionable to describe the Declaration of Human Rights as a peculiarly western, individualistic conception. It was not. Now is the time for Australia to discuss how best to make the State attentive to the still, small voice of conscience.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Bronwyn Lay
- 02 December 2008
20 Comments
When Germaine Greer savaged Michelle Obama's dress, I sighed. The 'beauty' market is a challenge to feminism. In France, two extremes of fashion ideology — burqas and plastic-surgery 'mannequins' — line up to buy bread.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Grant Fraser
- 02 September 2008
2 Comments
'Have you tried fruit?' said Francis .. 'Nothing to it that crackles and tears in the jaw!' said the head wolf. 'I will bake you bread' said the Saint .. 'It is nothing but air warmed and crusted, Entirely wrong for wolves.' And the thronged wolves .. Began to close
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 30 June 2008
2 Comments
Plastic is for when when durability is required. The use of plastics
in the manufacture of household appliances has enabled them to be
priced at a level affordable to most people. But single-use bags and bottles are just too costly to the environment.
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