Keywords: The Waiting City
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tony Kevin
- 05 December 2008
8 Comments
Barack Obama has deflected heat off the US at the current climate change conference in Poland. But in true Howardian style, Australia, by sitting on the sidelines, is sabotaging the conference's prospects of real-time progress.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Burke
- 04 November 2008
3 Comments
too much America is not good for you ... Follow your own
Confucius-Marx mix ... Let them learn Mandarin, China — you have enough
people to swing it.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
The world seemed too untidy for the lyrics of a song
.. but he could build a conversation from quotations. ..
I wanted mountains, rivers, knowledge .. he stayed, confusing eloquence with revelation.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jo McInerney
- 08 July 2008
1 Comment
It was easy to find the centre of the blast .. an eternity of razed houses, a stony desert .. dead soil, waiting for rain .. I write home often. My letters are cheerful.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Water colour petals grow into a crowd .. They populate the dustproof draft of an afternoon under the offices .. a saint shall guide anyone towards a meditation on
the whole picture .. the Central Business District.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
W. G. Sebald wrote as somebody evolving a new sensory capacity or a new vein of intellectual attention. The Emergence of Memory offers five interviews with him and four essays about him, which show that while he considered life to be 'a grave affair', he also knew sources of joy.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
he was diverted.. from the impending roast.. and wiping red wine.. from his generous lips.. he mouthed sweet nothings.. in retaliation.
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AUSTRALIA
- Nigel Johnson
- 04 April 2008
4 Comments
Independent radio stations have been denied broadcast licences under the Mugabe regime. While some still don't trust the government to honour the election result, others believe a new beginning for free speech is imminent.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Their lives are anchored at the verge of loss, | Like a flipped coin assurance is unlikely.| Refugees endure a prolonged journey of conflict
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AUSTRALIA
- Michele Gierck
- 17 October 2007
3 Comments
Using anecdotal evidence to back up government policy is dangerous. There are as many positive anecdotes about Africans as Minister Andrews has negative. Teaching refugees, you build relationships, offer students the opportunity to express themselves, and know that their life stories are respected.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Paul Daffey
- 02 April 2007
After the dogs and the trots on the pub's TV have been silenced, the musicians arrange themselves around the table. Martin Kelly closes his eyes, plucks his guitar and sings a ballad written at the time when the potato famine was laying waste to Ireland.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
In 2001, science broadcaster Robyn Williams wrote a novel inspired by Orwell's 1984, but set in 2007. It suggests that change is occurring with exponential speed, and that our opportunities for altering course are dwindling numerically, shrinking in size and diluting in quality.
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