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ARTS AND CULTURE
It is a useful truth that every real feat is built on a mountain of failures. The price for
poetry's occasional power is the ocean of
self-indulgent, mewling muck produced and published annually under the tattered banner of the Poem.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Susan Hurley and Grace Yee
- 05 May 2009
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even if we spent the next hundred years .. carving roast lamb on Sundays .. buttering white bread .. and boiling Brussels sprouts .. we could never be them .. nor they us
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ARTS AND CULTURE
The variety of Quaker service in Aboriginal communities and around the world is extraordinary. In light of the GFC and climate change, the Quakers' emphasis on small-scale food and water security projects will prove prescient.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 30 April 2009
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In 1982, Lebanese Christian militiamen murdered 800 civilians at Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut. Ari Folman witnessed the massacre as a 19-year-old Israeli soldier. He sets out to reveal those repressed memories.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Barry Gittins and B. F. Moloney
- 28 April 2009
He was flying up the guts .. hair and legs and arms ablaze .. Tacklers flew and flew again .. failing to disturb his crazed .. run of passion ... under Queensland skies.
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- Cassandra Golds
- 24 April 2009
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That Dostoevsky is said to have developed a 'theology of writing' does not mean he arrives forearmed with a set of dogmatic truths. Rather, he practises the narrative and spritual discipline of allowing each character to be heard.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 23 April 2009
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Within the cloistered world of Opus Dei, a young girl, Camino, is dying.
The Church hierarchy and its emphasis upon a Father-God have
displaced the nurturing instincts of Camino's mother, who urges her daughter along the path
of suffering.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 22 April 2009
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At 1am I noticed that the dad of a friend of mine
was in the corner drinking hard and telling funny stories. He got
drunker and drunker until, at about 3am, he started
shouting and cursing and some glass smashed. Finally he fell down.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- James Waller
- 21 April 2009
'By the end of the 21st century, icons of Joseph Stalin will be in every Orthodox Church.'
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Frank Brennan
- 21 April 2009
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Frank Costigan was a man of such moral authority that you would not need to
speak to him, just think, 'What would Frank do?'
When Frank was being wheeled in for surgery, he
completed reading the morning papers, then waved to his children.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Frank Brennan
- 20 April 2009
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrena Jamieson
- 17 April 2009
Loreto Sister Veronica Brady has taken on the Government for its treatment of Indigenous Australians, the church for its treatment of women, and Australian society for its materialism. She belongs to the long tradition of Australian stirrers.
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