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The Prime Minister has used myths surrounding Gallipoli and racial politics to tap into our felt, but barely understood, craving for belonging. The tenuous nature of our sense of community make us susceptible to the fear campaigns that have dominated Australian politics over the past decade.
Lively humour is deadly earnest. It erupts in the yawning gap between our dawn dreams of joy and justice and the noonday reality of cruelty and corruption. No totalitarian regime tolerates it for long.
Bryan Pipins on Angels, Kizitos, working in Uganda, the LRA, Meningitis and Cholera.
Queensland Museum arachnologist Dr Robert Raven says spider venoms have an amazing number of uses. A Year 12 science class at Maningrida (NT) helps him map the the molecules of venom, which will makes certain drugs much cheaper and more effective.
Union officials and ministers of religion have much in common. No-one rings a union to tell them that they’re being treated well and paid decently. People only ring the union when they’re in trouble, and usually, by the time they get around to doing so, they’re in lots of trouble.
Pioneer? Racist? Or product of his time?
Reviews of the films All or Nothing; Punch Drunk Love; Johnny English; and The Man Without A Past
Notions of good and evil have become a tradeable commodity in the rhetoric that has enveloped the conflict in Iraq.
Peter Craven on John Bell’s Hamlet.
Brian Doyle’s grace notes on the joys of everyday life.
Keith Harrison recalls the life of Philip Martin.
Reviews of the films Inside Man, V for Vendetta, Capote, and The March of the Penguins.
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