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Keywords: Romance

  • EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD

    Killing Lady Bountiful

    • Maddy Oliver
    • 27 August 2008
    10 Comments

    The power differential between helper and the helped is insidious. 'Lady Bountiful' wants credit for giving without thought of return, but can't help counting her sacrifices. Refugees can spot threats to their privacy and self-respect from a mile off.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Aussie bloke's exotic love

    • Tim Kroenert
    • 19 June 2008
    2 Comments

    Unfinished Sky succeeds as a sweetly observed, cross-cultural love story. Themes regarding human trafficking and sexual slavery are exploited, not, it seems, from genuine concern, but in a misguided attempt to lend the film social clout.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Vietnam's miracles of balance

    • Peter Pierce
    • 15 May 2007

    The city cyclo traffic could be negotiated because cramped spaces have generated considerate attitudes rather than rage. Physical accommodations to crowding and privation tempt the traveller into laudatory flights, but the people’s attitudes seem altogether too matter-of-fact.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Tower of Babel

    • Meg McNena
    • 11 December 2006
    1 Comment

    Lean Cuisine and single flannelette sheets to the heaven / of anywhere else. Born for higher things, a fair share / of paradise beyond the pale of suburban confinement.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Deep truths revealed with deceptive simplicity

    • Tony Smith
    • 21 August 2006
    1 Comment

    Powerful prose from a young indigenous woman that makes you remember the feelings of your home, your family, your losses and regrets, and yet makes you determined to continue.  

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    A murder in the family

    • Trent O'Bryan
    • 10 July 2006
    2 Comments

    Karen Kissane’s book on the murder of Julie Ramage by her husband makes us ask ourselves whether the private attitudes that allowed men to claim provocation as a defence for killing their partners have really changed.  Do they also need to be overhauled? 

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The creatures & their words

    • Peter Steele
    • 06 July 2006

    Peter Steele looks at poetry about the birds and beasts.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The frontier fallen

    • Tom Griffiths
    • 05 July 2006

    Historians are fighting a mini war over frontier history and the number of Aboriginal dead. Tom Griffiths argues for a different approach.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Learning love from Jane Austen

    • Eleanor Collins
    • 01 July 2006

    The Regency spinster’s novels have never been more popular

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Of bullocks and bulldust

    • John Sendy
    • 26 June 2006
    1 Comment

    John Sendy revisits Joseph Furphy’s Such is Life

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Romance v. reality

    • Virginia Bourke
    • 24 June 2006

    The cost of raising a child is no measure of a parent’s love.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Fine friends

    • Kirsty Grant
    • 07 June 2006

    Kirsty Grant reveals a world of decadence in Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

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