Keywords: Australian Fashion
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AUSTRALIA
- James Massola
- 11 December 2006
1 Comment
Dennis Lillee's recent comments about the Australians paying the price for having such an elderly team were shouted down from just about all quarters. Lillee could have held his tongue, given his own privileged circumstances—but then perhaps he did have a point.
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AUSTRALIA
- Binoy Kampmark
- 11 December 2006
In the end, Thorpe was swimming against himself. There were rivals, but there was nothing left, other than the treadmill of performances. The admission came in his last conference: "I needed a closing point." There is reason for him to be proud.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- David Streader
- 24 July 2006
Australian cinema has historically depicted Aborigines in relation to modern-day white society. But the pre-colonial setting of Ten Canoes enables us better to identify with the characters.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Peter Rose on writing Rose Boys.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Dorothy Horsfield
- 07 July 2006
Dorothy Horsfield reports on the rebuilding of Afghanistan.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Geoffrey Milne
- 06 July 2006
Theatre critic Geoffrey Milne took time off this summer to write two books on Australian theatre. What has drawn him into theatres more than 100 times a year over the past three decades—as a journalist and as a theatre historian? His excuse is that his university teaching demands close acquaintance with actual performances. But that’s not the whole story.
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AUSTRALIA
- Morag Fraser
- 03 July 2006
It’s a cliché, and that in itself should make you suspicious. In George Orwell’s centenary year, doubly so.
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AUSTRALIA
- Daisy Gardener
- 26 June 2006
1 Comment
The Independent Contractors Legislation recently introduced in Parliament affects many immigrant outworkers. The fashion industry faces a serious challenge over unfair practices towards outworkers.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Juliette Hughes
- 23 June 2006
What is it about some aspects of our viewing culture that gets me so pen-snappingly cross? Perhaps I should start at the beginning, with a small Spot Quiz, folks.
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AUSTRALIA
- George Morgan
- 15 June 2006
George Morgan on the cruelty of punitive attitudes to children.
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AUSTRALIA
- Troy Bramston
- 31 May 2006
Revisiting the government of Billy McMahon
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ENVIRONMENT
Mark Byrne looks at the particular characteristics that make an Australian 'hero', and asks what it is about the interior of this country that moulds the interior of our collective suconscious in such a unique way.
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