section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gabrielle Bridges
- 01 April 2009
3 Comments
Twins were born in a country town. John lived in the male world of farms and pubs. Jane married an angry patriarch like
her father, and unwittingly copied her mother with silence and
sedatives. Later she would watch her brother die.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ian C. Smith
- 31 March 2009
All along the cell-block .. The singing echoes like a threat .. voice flatter than Bob Dylan's .. loaded with false jocularity .. his sweat sour in the grey slot
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Paul Collins
- 30 March 2009
10 Comments
Ronald Conway (1927–2009) was of a rare breed in Australia. He stood
against the prevailing climate of thought which ignores important questions of faith, spirituality and human experience, and
focuses on the conventional and politically correct.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michael McKernan
- 30 March 2009
3 Comments
With typical irreverence we have taken some glee in the
conflict between politicians and the military. Indeed in
our history there has been tension, not to say a distrust,
between the military and politicians in Australia.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Mendes
- 27 March 2009
1 Comment
Some enjoyed supportive placements and moved successfully into
mainstream society. Others
were disempowered and even traumatised by their time in care, and left
with serious health and emotional deficits.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 26 March 2009
1 Comment
Let's face it, caricature is easy. Rhetoric that links bikies with terrorism and organised crime makes for sensational news, but good journalism demands more than that. So does compelling storytelling.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Roger Trowbridge
- 25 March 2009
2 Comments
Dennis was the neighbourhood character. Full of good humour, he had a capacity for quipping his way through life — no one out-quipped Dennis. One day Dennis went to the Grand Prix. That evening he did not come home.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Charlotte Clutterbuck
- 24 March 2009
2 Comments
Dawkins would say I am deluded .. in a world unhoused, split between .. those who think they know everything .. those who think they know there is nothing.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- John Cokley
- 20 March 2009
2 Comments
Despite what Big Media bigwigs say, there is an alternative to the journalism of Murdoch, Fairfax, the ABC, BBC, CNN and Reuters. In fact there
are many alternatives. This is news to many journalists, judging by the industry moaning.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 19 March 2009
1 Comment
Be it fact or fiction, there is something humanising in the notion of young Pauline Hanson exposing her not-so-innocence to her then boyfriend's camera.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Barbara Creed and Richard Leonard
- 18 March 2009
3 Comments
People have stopped going to church, but they still
have an eye for and an expectation of the mystical. At the cinema,
spectators, primed by the structures of the cinema itself, enter into
a mystical experience with the shadow world being played out before them.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Roger Trowbridge
- 18 March 2009
1 Comment
Our personal documents had been swept up with assorted hardware and carried away. Only after a sleepless night did the potential for mischief at our expense became clear. The burglars had assumed control of our identities.
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