Keywords: Fashion History
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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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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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AUSTRALIA
- Edwina Byrne
- 13 January 2010
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It's fashionable to make all sorts of claims about Generation
Y. Among other things, we are spoilt, attention-deficient, highly educated and unemployable. If you stop prophesising our doom for a moment, you might see we're not as hopeless as we seem. August 2009
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
- Ruth Limkin
- 02 December 2009
7 Comments
There are those who argue that the fight to stave off the negative impacts of climate change is a fight to save the world from humans themselves. Dialogue from population-control advocates fails to recognise the dignity of each person.
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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
- Sarah Kanowski
- 08 October 2009
5 Comments
Big families are no longer fashionable, but they had their benefits. Vastly outnumbered, there's no chance for adults
to practice the kind of helicopter parenting common to my own
generation, where we hover over our one or two, soothing and solving.
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AUSTRALIA
- Edwina Byrne
- 10 August 2009
7 Comments
It's fashionable to make all sorts of claims about Generation
Y. Among other things, we are spoilt, attention-deficient, highly educated and unemployable. If you stop prophesising our doom for a moment, you might see we're not as hopeless as we seem.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jessica Frawley
- 02 March 2009
8 Comments
Paintings that once would have once sparked controversy now adorn biscuit tins, umbrellas, notebooks and a range of
other merchandise. We have killed the controversy and challenges faced in the past by branding it to death.
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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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ENVIRONMENT
- Marko Beljac
- 23 July 2008
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It is easier to get a job or get on the box doing superstring theory — the elusive 'theory of everything'. Progress in the field is being conducted without reference to empirical reality, revealing a market driven form of collective irrationality.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Alexandra Coghlan
- 30 May 2008
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A change of British statutes in 1815 gave mental illness a new public face that was unequivocally female. Mad, Bad and Sad is a new study that charts the role of madness as a barometer of the values, concerns and morals of its day.
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AUSTRALIA
- Madeleine Hamilton
- 27 March 2008
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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.
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