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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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- 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
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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
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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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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 21 April 2010
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Harry was 18, a knockabout bush larrikin ready to give anything a try. He joined the Second Machine Gun Battalion on 10
February 1915 and landed at Gallipoli on 16 August. For the next four months he, like so many of his fellow
soldiers, had an undistinguished, brutalising time, memories of which
would stay with him forever.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tony London
- 20 April 2010
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The old people in the mortuary silence of the doctor’s waiting room, rehearse the look, the patois, become familiar with the creeping symptoms, the medicines of resistance, the gentle small steps on the way.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Harvey
- 16 April 2010
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In one poem Les Murray would reduce the causes of the
Black Saturday fires to differences in forest management between 'hippies' and 'rednecks'. Utilising
poetry to play the blame game demeans our understanding of the complexity of that disaster.
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