Keywords: World Youth Day
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 04 November 2010
15 Comments
Cardinal Pell, with whom I have voiced disagreement, preached superbly at the mass of thanksgiving after the canonisation of Mary MacKillop. 'She does not deter us from struggling to follow her.' As we wrestle with the common good, let's make a place for all our fellow citizens.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 06 October 2010
1 Comment
Fiction writers have to arrange events so that they achieve the required outcome without stretching credulity. Yet real life routinely throws up sequences so bizarre that a fiction writer wouldn't dare to own them. Try this one.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Helen Brake
- 15 September 2010
12 Comments
As I grated the sandpaper across my face, the skin rubbed away but
didn't bleed as I expected. Gooey plasma softened the paper's rigid
surface. I picked another piece and tried again. Three weeks later I was diagnosed with major depressive disorder.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 07 July 2010
10 Comments
When you love, you must be prepared to die another death before you die
your own. Five minutes before 19-year-old Aristomenis died, he called in at his mother's place of work
to tell her he thought the exam had gone well.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 18 June 2010
1 Comment
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- P. S. Cottier and Jeff Klooger
- 08 June 2010
1 Comment
Since furniture regained its proper size .. and animals ceased to speak .. since teapots evicted rodents .. and the Queen became so very nice .. I find myself looking back ... Everything now is normaler and normaler
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AUSTRALIA
- Aurelien Mondon
- 23 April 2010
5 Comments
As Anzac Day approaches, Australian flags adorn our streets. To many, this display of nationalism is inoffensive and appears even as a sign of
cohesion. But it may also be a worrying facet of the growing appeal
found in exclusionary identity politics.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 15 April 2010
'Like most politicians, she was driven by psychological angels and demons', writes musician David Byrne of Imelda Marcos, the former first lady ofthe Philippines. Byrne has written a 'musical' about Marcos' life. From the outset, he risks deifying a monster.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 12 April 2010
19 Comments
In his Easter
message, Cardinal George Pell made an oblique reference to sexual abuse in the Church. While most Australians dismiss such utterances as too
little too late, it is possible to look at them optimistically when
set against actions of the recent past.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 01 April 2010
Youthful hacker Lisbeth Sallander is capable of great
violence. But often her violence is a response to that which has
been inflicted upon her. Her investigation of a decades old missing person case will test her capacity for mercy.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 05 March 2010
35 Comments
Australia's first Global Atheist Convention will feature such speakers as Richard Dawkins, Philip
Adams and Peter Singer. I look forward
to it with the same tempered gloom that would descend upon me if a
convention of Christian evangelists came to town.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 09 February 2010
'Tonight I want to reflect in light of the National Human Rights
Consultation how we as Church can do better in promoting justice for
all in our land. Full text from Frank Brennan's 2010 McCosker Oration, 'The Church as Advocate in the Public Square: Lessons from the National Human Rights Consultation'.
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