Keywords: Good Friday Appeal
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MEDIA
- Philip Harvey
- 24 February 2009
10 Comments
Melbourne had the strange experience of reading and
listening to bushfire reports for five days while neither seeing nor
smelling smoke.
When the mind has no sensory leads to interpret, words become critical.
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AUSTRALIA
- Paul Collins
- 13 February 2009
12 Comments
Though the fires are still burning, the blaming has already begun, with environmentalists and academics pitted against rural people and firefighters. We have entered a new era of fires and will need to take a long, ecologically sensitive look at what has happend.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 17 October 2008
9 Comments
'For me, talk of the death penalty evoked the young, frightened faces of
Scott and Emmanuel, as well as the laughing, haughty faces of Amrozi,
Mukhlas and Imam Samudra.' Full text from Frank Brennan's session on 'Killing People for Killing People', Ubud Writers Festival, 17 October 2008.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tony Smith
- 18 September 2006
The reactions of many Australians to the deaths of a crocodile showman and a racing car driver suggest that media images canonise our secular saints. Meanwhile the fictional Chris Anderson's love for his family and friends, and his integrity and humility, are very appealing characteristics.
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 18 May 2006
2 Comments
The arrival of West Papuan refugees raises complex questions. Discussion must begin by honouring the humanity of the West Papuans involved.
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MEDIA
- Nigel Starck
- 30 April 2006
Obituaries provide a window on the lives of those great and small
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Kiera Lindsey
- 25 April 2006
Kiera Lindsey reviews The Best Australian Stories 2004, edited by Frank Moorhouse, and The Best Australian Essays 2004, edited by Robert Dessaix.
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