section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Val Noone
- 04 September 2009
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At the height of Willam Hackett's republican involvements, the Jesuit provincial
offered him a choice of silence or appointment
to Australia. Through a combination of personal memoir and public history, Brenda Niall unravels the riddles of Hackett's life.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 03 September 2009
Roo makes a quick buck starring in a porn film. Trisha and Katrina are arrested for shoplifting. Orton and Stacey
are runaways from an untenable home
life. Blessed finds hope in the cracks between mothers and their teenage children.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 02 September 2009
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In Australia it would beggar belief to see elderly nuns directing garden hoses
against the fires that threaten their convents. But that is what happened
last week in Greece. Australia and Greece resemble each other in many ways, but not in the way they cope with fire.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brendan Ryan
- 01 September 2009
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inventing sins to keep the peace .. Were the priests cheated too, as I was? .. Or did they come to trust a congregation .. by the stories told in confession?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michael Sean Winters
- 28 August 2009
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The final gift of Ted Kennedy to the nation was to pass the torch of liberalism to Barack Obama. It was breathtaking to see this Irish Catholic embrace a black man as his political heir.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 27 August 2009
Joseph Pulinthanath's film cost less than the costume budget for a Bollywood film.
His encounters with the peoples of the 'anthropologist's paradise' that is North-East India drove him to respond to injustice in the region.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Diane Fahey
- 25 August 2009
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The birds I can't quite like, that symbolise .. cold self-intent, greed, the scalding primal .. writ small: drama queens and morsel-pirates .. at odds after the picnic — scraps about scraps.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tony Smith
- 21 August 2009
Sydney's history has traditionally been interpreted through the
artefacts of a people who are literate and industrial: through
documents and buildings. The Colony acknowledges the equal importance of the sparse traditions of the Indigenous peoples.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 20 August 2009
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'Cinema,' says director Robert Connolly, 'can take the audience and show them a tragedy in a way that creates empathy. I was interested in exploring the ability of this country to compel people to tell its story. It's hard not to start caring for what happened there.'
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Edward Reilly
- 18 August 2009
At the end of our courtyard a car starts .. Growling like some fierce predator .. Our collective souls quiver, cough softly .. Lest he draw up outside our window.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 13 August 2009
4 Comments
I don't use the word gospel lightly. Here was a secular film that
extrapolated, in teenagers' language, the notion of 'love thy
neighbour'. Filmmaker John Hughes died last week. The Breakfast Club remains his masterpiece.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 12 August 2009
3 Comments
Economists are often, sometimes
spectacularly, wrong. But like all prophets,
they are unabashed by and unpunished for abject failures. They pop
up from each new set of ruins, surprised yet unrepentant, princes
of a plethora of evanescent predictions.
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