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  • AUSTRALIA

    Thoughtful flesh consumption hard to swallow

    • Michael Mullins
    • 14 September 2009
    19 Comments

    Eating meat is a moral issue. We understand that sexual desires need to be met in a context of moral probity, or it's likely we will cause psychological damage to ourselves or others. But food consumption is wrongly regarded as morally neutral.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Sex workers' drama transcends soap opera frivolity

    • Tim Kroenert
    • 07 February 2008
    4 Comments

    Satisfaction takes place in a high-class city brothel, where demand is high and prices are higher. But it's more a matter of 'normalise' than 'glamorise'. The workers' everyday conflicts are exacerbated by the nature of their profession.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Rudd strip club story a promotion of women as sex objects

    • Michael Mullins
    • 22 August 2007
    8 Comments

    For most Australians, endearing naughtiness was the beginning an end of the Kevin Rudd sex club story. What was sadly overlooked was the de facto promotion of the sex industry, and implicit toleration of the damage it does to human dignity and the long struggle to ensure that women are not looked upon as sex objects.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    A voice for victims of the sex trade

    • Tim Kroenert
    • 22 August 2007

    The Jammed is a frank and gritty cinematic reminder that the issue of human trafficking is not just on Australia’s doorstep—tragically, it’s part of the furniture. The most unsettling human degradation is protected by walls of silence and secrecy, and is the oxygen that keeps the sex industry alive.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Finding God in the Dark: Spirituality and the Cinema

    • Richard Leonard
    • 27 February 2007
    1 Comment

    This is the full text of a speech given by Richard Leonard SJ in Queensland on spirituality and cinema, on the occasion of the opening of a new spirituality centre.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Historical novels

    • Delia Falconer
    • 06 July 2006

    Are we writing too many of them? Is there a crisis of relevance in Austlit? No, argues Delia Falconer.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Film reviews

    • Juliette Hughes, Allan James Thomas, Alex McDermott, Tim Metherall, Morag Fraser
    • 04 July 2006

    Reviews of the films Talk to Her; The Pianist; Ned Kelly; Sur Mes Lèvres; and The Hours.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The rage within

    • Margaret Rice
    • 24 June 2006

    Margaret Rice talks to the man behind The Rage in Placid Lake.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Cuban rhythms

    • Anthony Ham, Rosie Hoban
    • 19 June 2006

    From Cuba to Congo  and back again | Children at war

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Unnecessary necessities

    • Jon Greenaway, Kristie Dunn, Georgina Costello
    • 11 June 2006

    Unnecessary necessities | Letter from Broome | Heavy traffic

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Don’t give the green light to the red light district

    • Georgina Costello
    • 31 May 2006
    1 Comment

    Georgina Costello critiques Tasmania’s proposal to legalise prostitution.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Movie reviews

    • Allan Thomas, Zane Lovitt, Lucille and Juliette Hughes, Siobhan Jackson, Allan James Thomas
    • 14 May 2006

    Reviews of the films Oldboy, Bride and Prejudice, The Illustrated Family Doctor and House of Flying Daggers.

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