section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 23 September 2009
My mother-in-law stood up on the night before her daughter
married me, held her glass aloft, and sighed, 'Let's just hope this one
comes off'. Some of the best toasts I ever heard were from children: 'Here's to all mum's husbands past
and present!' said one girl, aged 11.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- L.K. Holt
- 22 September 2009
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The teenage boy .. drunk, taunting, now hanging from
.. your latch of jaw
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- John Wicks
- 18 September 2009
6 Comments
Some will be concerned by the black and white treatment of climate
change in Tony Kevin's book. There is common
ground now to generate significant policy changes with a focus
on wellbeing, even while the CO2 debate continues to rage.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 17 September 2009
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Addressing members of the Australasian Catholic Press Association, MasterChef winner and Catholic Julie Goodwin decried the vicious and personal nature of
some online forums, and the so-called journalists who draw upon them for articles.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 16 September 2009
3 Comments
C. J. Dennis once wrote
that, as a boy, he had 'a devout and urgent desire to become a
larrikin'. The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke provides a window on part of
Australian culture and the traditions, speech and images
that forged it.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Grant Fraser
- 15 September 2009
2 Comments
Men who stood before the gate .. trail the weight of empty hands, empty pockets .. Back to the shanties .. Where children are launching imagined craft .. Away from the stench of earth .. Into pools .. the colour of Keen's Mustard.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 10 September 2009
3 Comments
The first known suicide document is an Egyptian New
Kingdom papyrus entitled 'Dialogue of a World-Weary Man with his
Ba-Soul'.
In 1996 my sister Jacqui killed herself. Three years later our cousin Andrew did the same thing. Suicide has always been part of the human condition.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ellie Savage
- 09 September 2009
9 Comments
As Ibrahim waited for a taxi, he was attacked by four men who had been kicked out of a nearby club. Though severely injured, he continued to
fight against his attackers. When police arrived, they sprayed capsicum foam in Ibrahim's face.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Kathryn Hamann & Belinda Rule
- 08 September 2009
With your cervical vertebrae upwardly inclined you talk of stars and wonder .. I explain how you are deceived, for we look down, pinned by the force seen as I drop this half-eaten apple at your feet
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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
3 Comments
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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