keywords: Stranger Things
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AUSTRALIA
- Sara Niner
- 22 February 2008
4 Comments
Post-traumatic stress syndrome affects one third of the population of East Timor. Some survive as empathetic, generous and forgiving people. Others, such as late rebel leader Alfredo Reinado, do not.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jaya Savige
- 09 January 2008
How could they intuit the pricelessness of a warm welcome? / benign as Mugabe, market forces the not-so-new religion From 9 August 2007.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 25 October 2007
Many Australians have reservations about a government poster espousing such values with a quote from an English novelist, George Eliot, proclaiming "Character is Destiny". Others wonder about Simpson's Donkey as the emblematic carrier of these values. But how do schools train their students to be moral agents in the 21st century.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jaya Savige
- 08 August 2007
How could they intuit the pricelessness of a warm welcome? / benign as Mugabe, market forces the not-so-new religion
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 11 July 2007
Lucky Miles is an outrageous buddy comedy set in 1990 in the Western Australian wilderness, with echoes of September 11, border security, and the totalitarian Indigenous intervention. This topicality borders on prophetic, as the film was conceived seven years ago.
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AUSTRALIA
- Joseph Camilleri
- 18 May 2007
In light of the federal election, Joe Camilleri considers the questions that have yet to be asked
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RELIGION
- Kylie Crabbe
- 16 April 2007
2 Comments
The conversation about work-life balance is only just skimming the surface when it talks about childcare. We need to talk about how to structure employment arrangements to allow for good citizenship, befriending the stranger, and more.
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MEDIA
- Morag Fraser
- 16 April 2007
13 Comments
Jones' reflexes on air are assertive and territorial. A 'power of one' he may be, but he also makes a powerful appeal to the tribal in all of us. When we retreat into the tribe we lose the chance to experience of the kindness of strangers.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Nahum Ayliffe
- 02 April 2007
5 Comments
John Carroll's The Existential Jesus affirms a view expressed by Nick Cave that the bloodless, placid Jesus offered by the Church denies Christ his potent, creative sorrow, and the boiling anger that confronts us so forcibly in the Gospel of St Mark.
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RELIGION
- Scott Stephens
- 27 February 2007
9 Comments
Every attempt to curb capitalism's voracious appetite, to ‘humanize’ its world-wide dominion, to place the world economy back in the service of the greater good, and thus temper its lust for unregulated growth, has not only failed, but has been assimilated.
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AUSTRALIA
- Joan Healy
- 04 September 2006
Four Josephite sisters and a child protection expert visit the western desert of South Australia. They hear that when parents cannot care for their children properly due to petrol sniffing and other factors, the 'Anangu way' is for grandmothers and aunties to step in. But they need financial support.
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AUSTRALIA
- Juliette Hughes
- 09 July 2006
Juliette Hughes interviews Dawn Cardona, principal of Darwin’s Nungalinya Theological College.
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