section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 19 March 2009
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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
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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
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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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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tony London
- 17 March 2009
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This searing that killed simply by stealing the light and burning up the air they needed. 'This here is where the windscreen melted.' 'It was like they had been cremated in embrace.'
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- John Bartlett
- 16 March 2009
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The old economic rationalist model favoured by large publishing houses is waning. Enter the small, independent publishers who have a love affair with books, as well as low overheads and the time to lavish care on the books they produce.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Greg O'Kelly
- 13 March 2009
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The decades spanning the 1920s–1970s were times of intense change for Australia and the Church. Post war immigration, the Labor split, the Vietnam War and Vatican II all occurred during 'Matty' Beovich's time as Archbishop of Adelaide.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 12 March 2009
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A French satirical paper was sued for portraying Muslims as terrorists and labelling them 'jerks'. The editors would have us believe it's a case of free speech versus censorship. But there's more to it than that.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 11 March 2009
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Some rules of thumb: always say 'prior to' instead of
'before', 'in excess of' instead of 'more than' and 'in the approximate
vicinity of' instead of 'about'. It's good to say things like, 'We'll have to real-time this to impact on the offshore numbers'.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Lach-Newinsky
- 10 March 2009
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To attain God everything must go:
will, self, knowledge, word, God Himself ... Their faith is words.
Mine unspeakable.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Paul Cleary
- 09 March 2009
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When East Timor was struggling to get a fair deal in negotiations over Timor Sea oil, Kenneally rallied his mates to fight. Appearing on national television, he told Prime Minister Howard: 'I'd rather you did not come to my ANZAC Day parade.'
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Science journalist Hannah Holmes turns a cool, scientific eye back on us, reminding us of our mammalian origins and bringing us down to size. 'Knobby', pink-skinned and ludicrously top heavy, our peculiarity is also the
key to our success.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 05 March 2009
4 Comments
Those who expect a portrait of a monster will be disappointed. Stone's Bush is not
exactly sympathetic. But he is human. He is even
likeable.
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