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ARTS AND CULTURE
In the age of equal opportunity and unisex underwear, the feminist movement seems as incendiary as a cup of tea. Then there's ecofeminism, which argues that 'the domination of women and the domination of nature are fundamentally connected'.
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An ancient brotherhood of scientists and artists
with a beef against the hierarchy reemerges to try to hobble the Church. The Pope is dead, and the Church leaders, at their most vulnerable, must rely on an old nemesis to be their saviour.
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- Andrew Hamilton
- 20 May 2009
10 Comments
I only met Bud Tingwell once. Like so many others, I went away the
better for the brief encounter. But the meeting also led me to ask
questions about what matters, and how we should nurture it in
Australian society.
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- Gillian Bouras
- 20 May 2009
6 Comments
Les Murray describes himself as a poet who is religious
rather than a religious poet, and celebrates a sense of wonder and
mystery. In an increasingly secular age, poetry has a new
function as an alternative or complement to religion.
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- Shane McCauley
- 19 May 2009
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You will look left and right .. so many times .. the road will never be crossed ... Swim in nothing deeper .. than a basin ... and say a prayer .. before you sleep at night.
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- Eleanor Massey
- 18 May 2009
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In 1962, Port Kembla was stoked with the dispossessed of the Old World, pouring
steel back into the reconstruction of their war-ravaged homelands.
Now, it's a ghost town. They're putting together an
industrial museum, and that has an ominous ring to it.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Cassandra Golds
- 15 May 2009
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Jones' working life has been devoted to stories. In Through A Glass Darkly, she tells of her father's death. Her account questions the experiences behind modern medical miracles, and acts as a guide for understanding suffering and grief.
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What is a synecdoche? Work that out and you're part of the way to understanding this brilliant if convoluted opus. Suffice it to say that Caden Cotard, the bloated, self-loathing man who presides over the corrupted world at the film's heart, may in fact be God.
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- Brian Matthews
- 13 May 2009
If Shakespeare had dabbled in cuisine, dishes
such as 'eye of newt' and 'fillet of fenny snake' may have been a sensation. As the first 'foody' to emerge from the obscurity of Stratford-upon-Avon, he would have an unlikely successor: Gordon Ramsay.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Teenagers can and should be sedated .. Hair is the window of the brain .. Love hurts, but it can be cured .. It doesn't matter if you missed life, it will be on TV eventually.
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Kamel Sachet, a 'hero' from the Iran/Iraq war, eventually made the rank of
general. But he grew disenchanted with the
rule of Saddam. As he tried to withdraw from active service, he became more religious as an observant Muslim.
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Samson and Delilah is an ode to Alice Springs and its extremes; an ethereal love story against a backdrop of addiction, violence and displacement. Racism is
not an explicit presence, but it is there,
a foul breath that muggies the air.
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