Keywords: The Combination
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michele Madigan Somerville
- 15 December 2009
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spires
nosed upwards to touch
the celestial concert of bodies ... We emulate with half-lame gestures, insufficient and diffuse, dissolving into air like smoke ascending from a goat on an altar —
as if God were open to flattery
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Anthony Morris
- 19 November 2009
For once in the Coens’ recent comedies not everyone here is an idiot. But not being an idiot doesn’t help serious man Gopnik much, as his world continues
to spiral out of control.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Val Noone
- 04 September 2009
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At the height of Willam Hackett's republican involvements, the Jesuit provincial
offered him a choice of silence or appointment
to Australia. Through a combination of personal memoir and public history, Brenda Niall unravels the riddles of Hackett's life.
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 24 August 2009
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The Black Saturday bushfires had the same relationship to previous fires as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima did to other bombing raids. Defects of communication and organisation, while regrettable and costly, were irrelevant: there's no assured safety for those
who live near bushland.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 13 August 2009
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I don't use the word gospel lightly. Here was a secular film that
extrapolated, in teenagers' language, the notion of 'love thy
neighbour'. Filmmaker John Hughes died last week. The Breakfast Club remains his masterpiece.
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AUSTRALIA
The boys of Lebanon have found a niche in Aussie pop culture. Several recent films deal with Arab-Australians as the 'other',
examining the extent of their assimilation, the codes they live
by, and their functions within a 'tolerant' society.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 27 July 2009
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It's not uncommon for celebrities to get involved in charity work. Ian Thorpe's monumental speech to the Beyond Sport Summit in London articulating his resolve to tackle Indigenous disadvantage suggests he is far ahead of the pack.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 17 July 2009
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A few weeks ago Tim Winton's Breath was awarded this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award. This video trailer is a poetic combination of strong images, haunting music, quotes, and eloquent interview with the author.
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank Bowden
- 13 July 2009
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What we call people can determine the way we treat them. At one hospital in the 1980s, the rank odour of urine, tobacco and grime that characterised some homeless patients led to them being referred to as 'dunnies'.
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RELIGION
- Frank O'Shea
- 05 June 2009
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After a lifetime in schools run by
religious orders, I am appalled to think abuse against children in institutions in Ireland was 'endemic'. I try to persuade myself that 'Brendan', the saintliest man I ever knew, cancels out the bad eggs.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
In the age of equal opportunity and unisex underwear, the feminist movement seems as incendiary as a cup of tea. Then there's ecofeminism, which argues that 'the domination of women and the domination of nature are fundamentally connected'.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 11 May 2009
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The community is divided over the Government's revised climate change strategy. Australia has the most visible evidence of climate change, which makes it all the more urgent for us to provide leadership on the world stage.
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