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ARTS AND CULTURE

Best of 2009: Michael Jackson's tragic gift
- Tim Kroenert
- 14 January 2010
1 Comment
When celebrities die, public grief is disproportionate, because death reasserts the humanity of one who has seemed beyond it. Jackson had become so far removed from his humanity that the shock of his mortality is even more profound. June 2009
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Money doesn't make babies happy
- Stephen Wright
- 30 September 2009
6 Comments
We are terrible at caring for the planet because we are terrible at caring for each other. And we are lousy at caring for each other because we don't seem to have any idea of where the roots of human emotional sustenance lie. We might begin to look at our obsessive love of money and power.
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MEDIA

Alice's addiction in Cyberland
- Adam McKenna
- 27 July 2009
6 Comments
As we continue to become tools of our tools, we risk mistaking online social networking for social capital. Social networking is widespread because humans are social animals, and technology has changed the way we live, interact and seek to interact.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Michael Jackson's tragic gift
- Tim Kroenert
- 29 June 2009
6 Comments
When celebrities die, public grief is disproportionate, because death reasserts the humanity of one who has seemed beyond it. Jackson had become so far removed from his humanity that the shock of his mortality is even more profound.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Easter poems
- Jeff Klooger, Rory Harris and Janette Fernando
- 07 April 2009
4 Comments
In Rembrandt's painting, the risen Christ .. wears a jaunty hat ... So roguish! .. So impious! Impish, even! .. He has come to greet his girlfriend .. Mary Magdalene
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ARTS AND CULTURE

A farmer's life
- Gabrielle Bridges
- 01 April 2009
3 Comments
Twins were born in a country town. John lived in the male world of farms and pubs. Jane married an angry patriarch like her father, and unwittingly copied her mother with silence and sedatives. Later she would watch her brother die.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Saturday night jukebox
- Thom Sullivan
- 20 January 2009
outside a rank of .. gloomy farm utes .. wide-eyed gazing .. hound dog howling .. crooning a primal .. lovelust upwards .. towards a doughy .. round of moon.
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AUSTRALIA

Obama masks and New York monks
- Alexandra Collier
- 31 October 2008
1 Comment
In Brooklyn, politics and Halloween overlap. On one house, a 'Vote McCain' sign abuts another, declaring, 'Haunted House'. As the West Village prepares for its annual parade, the homeless sit in a curve, supplicating to the wealthy.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Love bytes and pillow fights
- Andrena Jamieson
- 26 September 2008
2 Comments
Elias' belief in freedom sees him join Che Guevara in an African campaign, and insurgent movements in Angola and Somalia. He learns that ideological commitments mask simpler human desires for riches, revenge, status and sex.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Incivility trumps the empty dance of manners
- Brian Doyle
- 25 June 2008
5 Comments
One time we were in a meeting when a very important person proposed a very stupid idea. We knew our uncivil friend would pop a gasket, and he did, albeit in memorably incisive fashion. The silence that followed was a remarkable sound.
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ENVIRONMENT

'Don't be evil' a struggle for Google
- James Massola
- 05 September 2007
5 Comments
Channel 7's purchase of AFL players' medical records has highlighted privacy concerns. Most users of Google are not aware of the extent to which it compromises their privacy.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Slogging through mud
- Jan Owen
- 22 August 2007
Taking the long route home to night / through number and colour and form; / ghosting, becoming, the silence, / we shatter and drink the light.
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