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All the world is a stage
- Andrew Hamilton
- 08 December 2022
Once protests would have found expression in powerfully argued and persuasively delivered speeches. Now people look less to the power and skill of the words and more to the gestures in which they are embodied. This precedence given to performative language over deliberative language deserves reflection.
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AUSTRALIA

Venerable shards from Broken Hill
- Bernard Appassamy
- 20 September 2022
The shards are earthenware with geometric or figurative coloured patterns. Their cracked glazes and ragged edges echo the outback raw aesthetic, and allude to the ongoing challenging narratives of Broken Hill. Now they are sitting large on my desk claiming a distinctive extraction value from a mining city, and whispering, like books on a homely shelf, an intimate lasting merit.
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Philosophical kissing
- N. N. Trakakis and Vivien Arnold
- 23 April 2013
4 Comments
'When it comes to the kiss, philosophy has very little to say,' you once protested. 'It would seem that the lovers of wisdom don't know how to kiss!' ... Always longing for union with my other (and better) half, the two pieces, long astray, finally fitted together, mouth-to-mouth ...
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AUSTRALIA

Life and art in jail
- Oliver Humphries
- 01 October 2010
11 Comments
I am the unwilling custodian of some very fine paintings that no one will ever see. Whenever Mr N wants to discuss aesthetics, or Matisse's brush technique, or surrealism, I have to remind myself that he killed his wife and step-daughter with a fruit knife.
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In the suburbs of glut
- Les Wicks
- 27 April 2010
1 Comment
The same delusion that made us rich .. leaves a Hungry by the doors .. By comparison the 'wealthy' ones, Australian with homes .. on the market, no offers .. bereft in Bankstown .. wails in Warrimoo .. People are and want good.
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AUSTRALIA

Lessons in Greek prejudice
- Gillian Bouras
- 25 November 2009
4 Comments
My generation of Australians grew up with bigotry: the cordial loathing between Catholics and Protestants has faded only recently. But only when I married into a Greek family did I learn of the bitter and complicated antipathy of the Greeks for Albanians.
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After the obscenity
- Jo McInerney
- 08 July 2008
1 Comment
It was easy to find the centre of the blast .. an eternity of razed houses, a stony desert .. dead soil, waiting for rain .. I write home often. My letters are cheerful.
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On the night of the fireworks
- Paddy O'Reilly
- 12 March 2008
2 Comments
We are part of a crowd walking slowly down to the river bank to watch the fireworks. People smile at me, because I am not one of them. I can appreciate this part of their culture, even though I am a foreigner.
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V. good
- Juliette Hughes
- 10 July 2006
New Year’s resolutions: 1. No more TV IQ tests that expose one’s innumeracies and estimate one’s intelligence at somewhere between a One Nation voter and a newt.
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Words and images
- Kirsty Sangster
- 06 June 2006
Kirsty Sangster on Plenty: Art into Poetry by Peter Steele.
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Keywords: Pottery