Keywords: Fashion History
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AUSTRALIA
- Madeleine Hamilton
- 27 March 2008
3 Comments
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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RELIGION
- Scott Stephens
- 13 June 2007
5 Comments
In God is not Great, Christopher Hitchens dismisses religion as the invention of hucksters and frauds. Although he has abandoned his leftist position, this is a straightforward reiteration of Marx’s own critique of religion.
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AUSTRALIA
- Stephen Yorke
- 18 May 2007
Stephen Yorke considers the effects of the decisions we make.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Paul Daffey
- 02 April 2007
After the dogs and the trots on the pub's TV have been silenced, the musicians arrange themselves around the table. Martin Kelly closes his eyes, plucks his guitar and sings a ballad written at the time when the potato famine was laying waste to Ireland.
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RELIGION
- Ursula Stephens
- 26 March 2007
2 Comments
Even though St Patrick's Day has not yet arrived, I have already received several cards and messages. Some came the old-fashioned way, delivered by the postman, but most were like my friend Colleen's, the virtual variety, and arrived with a "ping' in my inbox.
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AUSTRALIA
The construction of new stadiums has been accompanied by increased surveillance and control over the spectator space. Entertainment organised by the stadium managers, which they and their sponsors can make money from, is OK – but spontaneous entertainment is forbidden.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 08 March 2007
1 Comment
Jesus Christ was put to death, ostensibly because he ate with sinners and tax collectors. We can have good meetings with bad people, and bad meetings with good people. Being able to tell the difference is what reflects our moral substance.
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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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ARTS AND CULTURE
Kevin Hart on the poetry and essays of Czeslaw Milosz.
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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
- Peter Steele
- 01 July 2006
Art speaks, but we sometimes need translation
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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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