Keywords: Getting A Walk In
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brook Emery and Rodney Wetherell
- 05 July 2011
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Awful to think of her lying in that polished box, plump though somewhat wasted. It's a mercy, someone's bound to say, yet tearful Bill may not agree.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Mary Manning
- 20 April 2011
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'I'm Shareena,' she says. 'I'm your radiographer for today. For your breast screen.' An old man looks away from the waiting room television when he hears the word breast. His eyes linger over my sensible tailored shirt and I wonder if I have left a button undone.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 10 November 2010
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Former local sports hero The Hawk took up residence on the town football field. A reporter came looking for a tale of woe but didn't find it. People leave him sandwiches, the kids who play lacrosse set up a screen so his tent won't get peppered by stray shots, and cops drift by to make sure no one's giving him grief.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Scott Steensma
- 03 November 2010
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The back label of my taboo-smashing pre-10am cake was covered in an unintelligible language, which I could only presume was Dutch. What I had thought a tasty sounding Breakfast Cake was apparently also known less appetisingly as an 'Ontbijtkoek'. I can neither read nor speak Dutch despite my Dutch migrant heritage.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Lost — Waiting for Spring — God owes me Royalties — Niche — Folding & Flying — Judas and Jezebel — Donne captains a ship of fools — Home — Loose Change — election
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 01 November 2010
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There is an emerging Aboriginal middle class. The contested questions in those communities relate to the expensive delivery of services including health, housing and education. The contested issue in the urban community is over self-identification as Aboriginal by persons of mixed descent.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Chris Mulherin
- 12 May 2010
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The oldest of our five, Ben studied science, medicine in his sights,
healthy, not wealthy and wise beyond his years. Ben died quietly. He had no choice really, we turned off the machine.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Helen Brake
- 03 September 2009
8 Comments
For international students, the eagerness to accept new faces is intensified by a desire to make Australian friends, improve communication skills, and embrace all the opportunities available to them.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brendan Ryan
- 01 September 2009
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inventing sins to keep the peace .. Were the priests cheated too, as I was? .. Or did they come to trust a congregation .. by the stories told in confession?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Roanna Gonsalves
- 23 June 2009
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Vincent and I were both international students
from Bombay. He had lived here for a year while I had only arrived
three months ago. We worked in the same Indian restaurant. The night of his attack, Vincent sounded upbeat on the train.
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RELIGION
- James McEvoy
- 12 March 2009
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Irish poet Seamus Heaney's spiritual journey could be seen as a casualty of the so-called secularising effect of the '60s and '70s. Heaney describes a shift from faith as external and ritualistic, to something more personal.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Malcolm King
- 21 January 2009
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Adelaide has a large, country-town feel about it. Sputes (sports utes) abound and the word 'bogan' is a term of endearment. The mullet hair cut, check shirt and ugg boots have never really gone out of
fashion here. These are my people.
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