Keywords: Victorian Bushfires
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AUSTRALIA
- Bronwyn Lay
- 16 February 2009
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A year ago, on the day of the National Apology, the emotion was palpable over the seas. But it was hard not being there, standing on the same dirt as your fellow countrymen. It is similarly difficult to be away from home during a time of natural disaster.
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AUSTRALIA
- Paul Collins
- 13 February 2009
12 Comments
Though the fires are still burning, the blaming has already begun, with environmentalists and academics pitted against rural people and firefighters. We have entered a new era of fires and will need to take a long, ecologically sensitive look at what has happend.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 13 February 2009
13 Comments
The world of pop music is dominated by prettiness and skin-deep perfection. In that context, Cohen's greatness is not instantly discernable. Lately a Buddhist, he has spent his latter years in study of religion — 'But cheerfulness keeps breaking through.'
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 12 February 2009
12 Comments
A compulsive fire lighter sets fire
to a few leaves. The fire grows and ends up causing many
deaths. While it is momentarily satisfying to find someone on whom to fix blame for
the fires, it is unhelpful to be fixated in blame.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 12 February 2009
3 Comments
Kevin Rudd controversially told Channel Nine's Today show that the Victorian firebugs had committed 'mass murder'. Grief and anger compete during such times, and for armchair critics it is often all too easy to take the moral high ground.
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 11 February 2009
3 Comments
What can I do, I think, that first Sunday, other than being a nuisance at an emergency centre, or a gawker? I fall into something practical, fostering survivors' dogs and cats, and caring for bewildered companion animals who survived but whose owners didn't.
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 09 February 2009
9 Comments
During the financial turmoil this summer, images of fire have abounded.
The economy is 'going into meltdown'. Shareholdings 'turn to
ashes'. This weekend's bushfires make us ask instinctively what really matters.
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ENVIRONMENT
Science coverage in the media is dominated by boffins and nerds in lab coats . It loses out to “real” stories of politics and economics in the serious broadsheets, magazines and current affairs programs, and to crime and celebrities in the tabloids and to infotainment on TV.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tim Thwaites
- 09 July 2006
Summertime, and the livin’s less easy—at least in southern Australia.
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