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ARTS AND CULTURE

Good music becomes great business
- Tim Kroenert
- 13 December 2007
In the world of popular music, the transition from intimate theatre or festival gigs, to stadium rock shows, indicates the move from an authentic emphasis on great music, to 'music as spectacle', or pure commerce. It appears Missy Higgins has reached this point.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD

An unlikely pilgrim
- Michelle Coram
- 12 December 2007
9 Comments
The Camino de Santiago in Spain is over a thousand years old and trodden by tens of thousands of pilgrims each year. But for this pilgrim it was simply a cheap holiday, a sure way to get fit. She wasn't expecting any miracles.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Cousin Betty, the asylum and the EJ Holden
- Roger Trowbridge
- 05 September 2007
1 Comment
The old EJ was a last link to Betty. It was her pride and joy. She’d wash and polish it with the care most people reserved for their children. Betty had none. She was a "spinster".
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AUSTRALIA

No place for truth in citizenship training school?
- Erasmus
- 13 June 2007
4 Comments
It’s an ordinary day at the Citizenship Traditional School. Citizenship questions are about Australian values – fair go, mateship, correct use of English, etc. Take the questions home and memorise the right answers.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Towards a politics of hope
- Kiera Lindsey
- 18 May 2007
Kiera Lindsey reviews Craig McGregor’s Australian son: Inside Mark Latham and Brian Costar and Jennifer Curtin’s Rebels with a cause: Independents in Australian politics.
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RELIGION

The cost of our friendship with the United States
- James Massola
- 02 April 2007
2 Comments
Jesuit peace activist John Dear is continuing the tradition of civil disobedience pioneererd by the Berrigan brothers in the 1960s. A month in Australia has convinced him that we want to give up our freedoms in order to become part of the new American Empire.
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RELIGION

What’s wrong with Voting for Jesus?
- Scott Stephens
- 27 February 2007
3 Comments
I must confess to growing bored very quickly when I hear that our real problem today is the erosion of spirituality, of belief in a deeper dimension of life, and the consequent rampant materialism. From a properly Christian perspective, the problem today is not materialism, but religion itself.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Finding God in the Dark: Spirituality and the Cinema
- Richard Leonard
- 27 February 2007
1 Comment
This is the full text of a speech given by Richard Leonard SJ in Queensland on spirituality and cinema, on the occasion of the opening of a new spirituality centre.
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RELIGION

Acting on Conscience Canberra Launch Speech - Kevin Rudd MP
- 27 February 2007
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AUSTRALIA

Long road back for Ramos Horta
- Paul Cleary
- 27 February 2007
In 2006, the East Timorese government’s inept handling of a dispute in the army involving soldiers from the western region of East Timor put the young nation on the brink of civil war. Now Jose Ramos Horta has been installed as Prime Minister, but will it make a difference?
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AUSTRALIA

An insider's view of Labor's sea change
- Ursula Stephens
- 23 December 2006
5 Comments
A NSW Labor Senator predicts that Kevin Rudd’s leadership of the ALP will be sophisticated and incisive in identifying the trigger points that will defeat the Howard government.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The highs and lows of substance addiction
- Tim Kroenert
- 23 December 2006
In a cerebral sci-fi movie, America’s war on drugs emerges as a reflection of the real-world War on Terror, where government forces rage against a demonised and largely faceless enemy.
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