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ARTS AND CULTURE

The grand champion of mothers
- Gillian Bouras
- 23 May 2012
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When I became a mother for the first time, my mother was there for her baby, not for mine. It had been a difficult birth. 'Heavens,' said Mum, 'You look just as you did after a hard day at school.' 'Oh, Mum,' I said, 'I'm so worried about him.' Mum laughed her head off. 'You're stuck with that feeling now.' How right she was.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Investment bankers and other monsters
- Tim Kroenert
- 22 March 2012
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The action takes place in 2008 on the eve of the GFC, at an investment bank loosely modelled on Lehman Bros. The CEO is monstrous; a kind of sinewy bishop to capitalism, gaunt and vicious. Yet even the most principled characters are shown to compromise to varying degrees in the name of self-interest.
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INTERNATIONAL

The Western origins of Hati's 'curse'
- Adele Webb
- 04 March 2010
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The story of Haiti, even from the earliest decades of its independence, is one of a downward spiral into debt and underdevelopment. It has been at the short end of the stick, time and time again, in its relationships with richer and powerful countries. Haiti, it turns out, never stood a chance.
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INTERNATIONAL

Empathy for the Haiti I know
- Kent Rosenthal
- 18 January 2010
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In 2006 while living in Haiti I wrote about the plight of human trafficking victims. But the same issue of justice doesn't enter the picture when talking about an earthquake. What light could I shed on the enormity of suffering and destruction with my slight contribution?
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Larrikin poet's Sentimental 'slanguage'
- Brian Matthews
- 16 September 2009
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C. J. Dennis once wrote that, as a boy, he had 'a devout and urgent desire to become a larrikin'. The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke provides a window on part of Australian culture and the traditions, speech and images that forged it.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Denizen of a disturbed time
- Frank O’Shea
- 14 May 2006
Frank O’Shea reviews Andrew Moore’s Francis De Groot: Irish Fascist, Australian Legend.
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