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ARTS AND CULTURE

The beer jingle that saved Christmas
- Brian Doyle
- 22 December 2011
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A hickory tree peed his pants. A striped bass assaulted an eggplant. A teacher cursed in Gaelic into her mic. Then my kid brother, Tommy, spontaneously stepped forward and sang that jingle. Some moments are unforgettable for reasons we can't articulate. My dad says he'll savour that one on his deathbed.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

You are not alone
- Shane McCauley
- 18 October 2011
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Mist moves here, cloaking statues, mild giants that haunt and wait... the slave breathes towardhis freedom.
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RELIGION

My debt to a wandering priest
- Frank Brennan
- 25 May 2010
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When Fr Julian Tenison Woods was no longer welcome in the south, he came and conducted scientific expeditions and parish missions in Queensland. In 1881, he conducted a parish mission in Maryborough, where he got Martin Brennan, my great-grandfather, off the grog and back to church.
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RELIGION

Frank Tenison Brennan on Julian Tenison Woods
- Frank Brennan
- 25 May 2010
Fr Frank Brennan SJ's address at the Commemoration of Julian Tenison Woods Park, Penola SA, 23 Mary 2010
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AUSTRALIA

Olympics a good time to start wars
- Gillian Bouras
- 15 August 2008
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Politics is never far from the surface at the Olympics. Even at the so-called friendly Games in Melbourne in 1956, the famous 'Blood in the Water' water-polo match reflected tensions surrounding the Soviet invasion of Hungary ten days before.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Fathoming the Iraqi quagmire
- Shahram Akbarzadeh
- 25 July 2008
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Muqtada al-Sadr's rhetoric against US occupation and the establishment of an armed militia saw him cast as a firebrand and rogue cleric in international media. This book contextualises his rapid rise to authority in post-Saddam Iraq.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Women and madness
- Alexandra Coghlan
- 30 May 2008
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A change of British statutes in 1815 gave mental illness a new public face that was unequivocally female. Mad, Bad and Sad is a new study that charts the role of madness as a barometer of the values, concerns and morals of its day.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Lotus flowers bloom regardless
- Anne Carson
- 15 April 2008
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Our musician guide tells how he was made to smash his violin, his love. Fifty years on and grief still shapes his hands; splinters in his palms.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Digital compact camera ensures no more unexamined life
- Brian Matthews
- 19 September 2007
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Digital photography allows the easy recording of almost every moment of our lives. Putting to your dog the proposition 'The unexamined life is not worth living', he would look at you with an expression that respectfully suggested, 'Human beings are so dumb'.
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AUSTRALIA

Eating in and out in Rome
- Hilary Reynolds
- 18 September 2006
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It’s fascinating what travel does for food prejudices. Tripe, abhorrent back in Australia, off-white spongy mounds in parents’ horror stories of post-Depression childhood, was trippa con spinaci on Taverna Guila’s menu.
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INTERNATIONAL

Undeclared war on Haiti's poor
- Kent Rosenthal
- 10 July 2006
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Living conditions in Ouanaminthe, a ‘town’ of around 100,000 inhabitants amount to an undeclared war on the poor. There’s a lack of services, which makes Ouanaminthe a gathering place for human traffickers, smugglers and corrupt authorities ready to profit from people desperate to leave for the Dominican Republic.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The price of peace
- Jo Dirks
- 10 July 2006
Jo Dirks looks at a new film on the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
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