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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Chris Mulherin
- 12 May 2010
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The oldest of our five, Ben studied science, medicine in his sights,
healthy, not wealthy and wise beyond his years. Ben died quietly. He had no choice really, we turned off the machine.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
mapping the cobbled Parisian dawn .. in search of juxtaposition .. stairways,
upturned street vendors' carts .. unglamorous prostitutes, pedlars .. the
stillness of odd, aged architecture .. angles, spaces awash with light
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Tony is the working class underdog battling to excel in a sport
dominated by private school boys. The temptation for the poor westie Tony to engage in petty crime is a
cliché too far, but does help to highlight the social structures that
define Tony's world.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Kevin Rudd has raised circumlocution to an
art since coming to office. But recently his polysyllabic heart rate seems to have slowed.
What's changed? Could it be the patter of Tony feet? Time to restart that
'working families' mantra: plain prose beats purple.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
They change the sky but not their soul who run .. across the sea: the impartial earth .. gapes for the child of a pauper as for a princeling ... (For Peter Porter)
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Steele
- 30 April 2010
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Feed and clothe this Australian poet and lodge him in a library attached to a music venue, and remarkable things would happen. He made of London a country of the mind, its vices, virtues, constant features and mutability there to be inspected and eventually portrayed.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 30 April 2010
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Most of these could be described as love songs, even when they
focus on the land, on values or on people overwhelmed by misery. Although they tap deeply into the darkness of being human,
they are sweet and wistful in the hope that animates them.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 29 April 2010
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Fingers, impossibly nimble, weave melody amid the dappled tips of sunny
seas. Rush it to foamy, gushing peaks. Drop it amid thundering, vigorous
rolls. Set it adrift once more, wet, bruised and quietly thrilled.
It's the moment when God arrives, whatever it is you understand 'god' to
be.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Frank O'Shea
- 28 April 2010
7 Comments
The case was not reported in the local paper, much to our disappointment, so we never had the distinction of being described as
'local youths'. In our pre-teen innocence, we were convinced our parents would appeal, all the
way to the High Court if necessary. They had more sense.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
The same delusion that made us rich .. leaves a Hungry by the doors .. By comparison the 'wealthy' ones, Australian with homes .. on the market, no offers .. bereft in Bankstown .. wails in Warrimoo .. People are and want good.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 22 April 2010
War films tread a fine line if they are to respect the
experiences of soldiers without glorifying war. Beneath Hill
60 is the true story of Australian miner-soldiers tasked with tunnelling
beneath the front lines during World War I.
It is not unkind to the Anzac myths.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ben Coleridge
- 22 April 2010
5 Comments
Winter in the Russian industrial city of Yaroslavl has been hard since
the Global Financial Crisis. The 'contract' between Russia's elite and ordinary
Russians, whereby the latter sacrifice their civil and political rights
for economic wellbeing, is not delivering.
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