Section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 27 January 2010
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Senator Steve Fielding attempted to debunk climate change theories using graphs based on Channel 9's Snicko. The debate petered out when Tony Abbott incautiously declared it was all 'crap'. Re-thinking, he amended
crap to tax — it was just a big tax.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ellena Savage
- 22 January 2010
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When we think of pin-up girls from the '40s and
'50s, we might assume they were desperate women who unwittingly participated in an industry that exploited them. In her new book, Madeleine Hamilton argues they were in fact 'trailblazers of the sexual revolution'.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 21 January 2010
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From a patronising priest to a pair of impressionable hippies, the white characters are all doofuses. Bran Nue Dae provides a means for introducing young people to the ongoing impacts of white settlement upon Indigenous Australians.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 21 January 2010
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Jesuit Fr Jean-Yves Calvez's 1957 work La pensée de Karl Marx was as much studied in Communist
cells as in Catholic circles. Fr Calvez systematically studied Catholic Social Teaching, and his impact on Catholic attitudes was enormous but diffuse.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 19 January 2010
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The blizzards of bills, the surly son, the dismissive daughter, the shabby house, the battered car, the shivering pains, the dark thread of fear that I might not have been a good dad, the feeling sometimes that maybe there was a better husband for my wife ...
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 14 January 2010
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When celebrities die, public grief is disproportionate, because death reasserts the humanity of one who has seemed beyond
it. Jackson had become so far removed
from his humanity that the shock of his mortality is even more
profound. June 2009
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Morag Fraser
- 08 January 2010
McGirr seems more the magpie than the dormouse.
Even when he's curling up under his desk for a
post lunch kip you figure he's just giving his brain a few horizontal
minutes to organise and file the prodigious miscellany that
might otherwise leak out. July 2009
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 07 January 2010
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The world of pop music is dominated by prettiness and skin-deep
perfection. In that context, Cohen's greatness is not instantly
discernable. Lately a Buddhist, he has spent his latter years in study of religion — 'But cheerfulness keeps
breaking through.' February 2009
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 18 December 2009
Once I opened a present on which a young niece had
written MARY CHRIST BUS, with every iota of her
tongue-clenched diligence. If I was a wise man, I
would have saved that paper, so that I could even now open it and see the world as it is, ancient, glorious and written endlessly by the young.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 17 December 2009
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Back in March, I strolled the streets of Fitzroy in Melbourne's inner
north with Warwick Thornton, trying to find a quiet spot for an
interview. Two months prior to the release of his feature debut,
Samson and Delilah, Thornton was quietly hopeful his film would be positively received.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Frank O'Shea
- 16 December 2009
3 Comments
If you ever hear a House Manager admit that her neighbour has made a
better Christmas cake, write down the
time, place and the names of witnesses, and get it signed by your
parish priest. It is the kind of thing that
might be useful in the early stages of a canonisation process.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michele Madigan Somerville
- 15 December 2009
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spires
nosed upwards to touch
the celestial concert of bodies ... We emulate with half-lame gestures, insufficient and diffuse, dissolving into air like smoke ascending from a goat on an altar —
as if God were open to flattery
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