Keywords: Power And Sport
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 04 December 2010
3 Comments
So Australia has lost its bid to host the World Cup. In a single night the Holy Grail of the World Cup was transmuted to tin, the Light on the Hill of 2022 was snuffed out, the Crystal Sea that would convey worshipful hordes to Australia turned to seaweed.
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AUSTRALIA
- Myrna Tonkinson
- 18 June 2010
14 Comments
Timana Tahu left the NSW State of Origin team after racist comments by assistant coach Andrew Johns. AFL heavyweight Mal Brown described Aboriginal players as cannibals. Why is it an insult to call someone black?
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Visontay
- 19 January 2010
6 Comments
Everyone from Roger Federer to Kim Clijsters would know that when you're in the top 100, tennis is a mental contest. It's when you walk around the outside courts at the Australian Open that you discover the players who really set tennis apart from other sports.
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AUSTRALIA
- Luke Fraser
- 09 September 2009
The relationship between Australia and Russia is over 200 years old. It
began with great promise, but relations cooled following the Russian
Revolution. The financial crisis presents an opportunity for both
countries to look to each other with optimism once again.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 05 August 2009
2 Comments
What if all the cars and sports teams we name for fleet
and powerful animals and cosmic energies and cool-sounding things that
don't exist or mean anything are, effective
immediately, renamed for literary characters and authors.
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RELIGION
I am shocked and angered by the actions of fellow religious Brothers detailed in the Ryan Report. There were basic things lacking in our training that could have led to a very warped way of looking at oneself and the world.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 10 June 2009
5 Comments
Malign influences seeped into the cracks that brain damage had
caused, and in his mind flowered into poisonous
paranoia. I found myself facing a most complicated bereavement: mourning the
living is often worse than mourning the dead.
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AUSTRALIA
It is time we stopped allowing football
administrators, advertisers and television stations to set the standards for ethical behaviour. The only way that
the current unethical rugby league culture can be removed is for the
code itself to disappear.
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AUSTRALIA
- Ruby J. Murray
- 24 April 2009
31 Comments
The hype surrounding the AFL's annual Anzac Day match has reached near-sacred heights. Asking what it means to have football played on Anzac Day is as risky as wondering why the Digger is the most powerful expression of Australian identity.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Roger Trowbridge
- 18 March 2009
1 Comment
Our personal documents had been swept up with assorted hardware and carried away. Only after a sleepless night did the potential for mischief at our expense became clear. The burglars had assumed control of our identities.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Barbara Creed and Richard Leonard
- 18 March 2009
3 Comments
People have stopped going to church, but they still
have an eye for and an expectation of the mystical. At the cinema,
spectators, primed by the structures of the cinema itself, enter into
a mystical experience with the shadow world being played out before them.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 05 January 2009
2 Comments
The modern Olympic torch relay was initiated by the Nazi
leadership in 1936 to uphold the image of the Third Reich as a dynamic and
expanding influence. Those who extinguished the Beijing torch in protest against human rights violations in Tibet recognise its origins and potency as a political symbol. (April 2008)
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