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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 20 January 2011
3 Comments
BACK TO SCHOOL shout the billboards and shop window displays and it's still only mid January. I suppose this infuriates present day kids as much as it used to stir my juvenile ire. For former teachers, 'Back to School' arouses other, less youthful associations.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 19 January 2011
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Although Mary is an infuriating ninny, we get to know her well enough to appreciate that gasping for breath beneath her wine-swilling garrulousness are deeply felt insecurities and a desperate desire to be loved.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe
- 18 January 2011
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It all takes place because of some geological fault. I think God understands more things than he is given credit for.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 18 January 2011
15 Comments
Do Australians hate Americans? No, because Americans invented basketball. What do Australians eat? Yeast paste. It tastes like someone ground up a penguin and then left it in the rain for a month before adding rubber and dirt to it.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jasmine-Kim Westendorf
- 14 January 2011
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Some say that not only is The Female Enuch of little relevance today: it never was relevant. Such arguments are often based more on attacks on Greer personally, and feminism generally, than considered critiques of the value of the feminist agenda set out in the book.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Kerry Murphy
- 13 January 2011
1 Comment
Atticus works within the system and hopes thereby to reform it. He wonders 'why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro come up'. Many lawyers will understand the challenge of working for the unpopular 'other': just replace 'Negro' with asylum seeker or 'Muslim woman in burqa'.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 06 January 2011
7 Comments
The trial and execution of Soraya M are portrayed in agonising, visceral detail. The stoning of 'adulterous' women under the auspices of Shariah law is shown to be less about violence inherent to Islam than the egos of brutal and bullying men.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 04 January 2011
2 Comments
For every greedy evil rapacious liar priest .. there are thirty great and subtle men .. Who wake alone quite early and don their vocations .. Willingly like a thorny endlessly tumultuous prayer
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ashleigh Green
- 22 December 2010
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When we search in distant places for fulfillment and purpose, we can miss the value of the local experience. I recently spent time in Nganmarriyanga, a remote Indigenous community, where I was greeted by a child. 'This is the country of my mother,' she told me.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Charlotte Clutterbuck
- 22 December 2010
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Despair, Damnation, and Capital Punishment are my Christmas fare this year. During my research into literary executions, I was shocked to find so few cases where they were opposed on Christian grounds, and so many examples of Christian acceptance.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Catherine Marshall
- 22 December 2010
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It started with a trip to Bethlehem, and has come to this: gift-laden, work-weary travellers clogging flight paths and highways like swirling snowflakes. But I stay home, draw my memories around me, and embark on a beautiful journey into the past.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Look at her, at the child cradled across her arm, replete in milky sleep, perfectly composed; At how her fingers fuss over his perfumed skin, The cool heal of her palm.
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