Keywords: Matthew And Son
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 02 May 2011
1 Comment
Jesuit Social Services recently set up a project in Alice Springs to resource the local parish and local Aborigines who want to take more control of their own lives. If we are to get our teeth into issues of acute injustice, we need to eyeball both the decision makers and those affected by those decisions.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 14 April 2011
2 Comments
In 1981, a few months before actor Peter Davison became the fifth Doctor Who, Professor Peter Davison, the literary scholar, accepted a commission to produce the corrected editions of Orwell's nine books. The project was to be fraught by false dawns and recurring frustrations.
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AUSTRALIA
- Fran Hogan
- 21 February 2011
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I had anguished over a particular sentence which was the subject of days of media comment. One of my fellow judges stuck his head around the door and said, 'Neil Mitchell says you are right.' This I found unsettling. Then he added, 'But don't worry, Derryn Hinch says you are a disgrace.' Phew!
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 01 November 2010
3 Comments
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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RELIGION
- Luke Walladge
- 22 July 2010
6 Comments
If Caravaggio hadn't been such a drunken, violent, criminal, he may
never have been human enough, disturbed enough or repentant of enough
sin to produce the most arresting, influential and remarkable sacred art in the history of the
Christian West.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
In 1975, during a near death experience, Cat Stevens called out to God. 'The moment I became a Muslim I found peace,' says the man now known as Yusuf Islam. He appears, solitary at the microphone, and begins an older man's
rendition of a younger man's songs.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Chris Mulherin
- 12 May 2010
31 Comments
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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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 30 March 2010
13 Comments
Augustine. Wondrous lesson, that man, but he has been imprisoned by theology. Grant me chastity but not yet, everyone knows that hilarious remark.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Mark Raper
- 18 January 2010
Significant agreement was achieved in Copenhagen on the present and future
forcible displacement of people because of climate change and
environmental degradation. Can global cooperation for the protection of vulnerable displaced persons be renewed to meet new circumstances?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 09 December 2009
2 Comments
January 1961: the fourth Ashes test. On the eve of the final day, with Australia's plight looking grim, we
went to a Chinese restaurant. We'd just given our
orders when Richie Benaud, Neil Harvey, Allan Davidson and Ken
'Slasher' Mackay walked in.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 16 September 2009
3 Comments
C. J. Dennis once wrote
that, as a boy, he had 'a devout and urgent desire to become a
larrikin'. The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke provides a window on part of
Australian culture and the traditions, speech and images
that forged it.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 18 August 2009
1 Comment
Before the mission was established here, the local Aboriginal community of 200 persons was forced to host 1000 convicts from the mainland for eight years. I daresay not all the convicts were easy-going beachcombers.
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