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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Kathryn Hamann
- 09 December 2008
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You are the city that recognised .. no temple but yourself ... those precious sparkling walls of intellect ... Shall I go down and trouble .. you with my touch? You as yet able .. to bar the gates
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 05 December 2008
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If Manning Clark was oversensitive to criticism, he was also strongly, sometimes brutally, criticised by his peers and by journalists. Matthews' biography presents the relationship between Clark's writing and his dramatic inner world.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ruby Hamad
- 04 December 2008
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'New Wave' Australian films of the '70s and '80s, such as Picnic at Hanging Rock and Breaker Morant, wooed audiences and critics. This weekend, four films that few Australians have seen will vie for top honours at the 2008 Australian Film Institute Awards.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Mark Skulley
- 03 December 2008
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The hand-in-glove nature of Perth business politics was hard to detect when money was cheap. Australia had a credit boom between 1983–1985, but the days of easy money faded. Then came the king wave: the sharemarket crash. (April 1991)
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Christopher Kelen
- 02 December 2008
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this poor house where ... as in the book of songs ... a famous rat eats the seedlings ... as they rise
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Cassandra Golds
- 28 November 2008
Much of classic Australian literature concerns itself with deepest frustration — the still birth of hopes and dreams, the futility of aspirations, a yawning emptiness at the heart of things. Louis Nowra’s new novel joins this tradition.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 27 November 2008
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Brian De Palma's Redacted took as its grim inspiration the true account of the rape and murder of a 15-year-old Iraqi girl, and the murder of her family, by a wayward group of US troops in 2006. It plays pretty fast and loose with the facts.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 26 November 2008
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We know it's a suffering world. Many of us plod through a vale of tears, often forgetting to count our blessings. Yet once in a while we are stopped dead in our tracks. By the human, which occasionally turns out to be the miraculous as well.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Liam Guilar
- 25 November 2008
I mounted up and rode ... into a dream of silent shuttered houses ... I waited for an outraged God to strike me down ... for flaunting breasts and pubic hair
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Harvey
- 21 November 2008
Although not a beat poem, a Peter Steele poem shares Ginsberg's aesthetic of the poem as measure of breath. Breath is commanding like an original lecture, enspiriting like a true sermon, propulsive like a perfect dinner conversation.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Barry Gittins
- 20 November 2008
There are no soothing words to truly quieten deep pain, but Fugitive Pieces shows redemption is a possibility, even in the face of undying memories.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 19 November 2008
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When you get hit by a bullet you never ever forget what it feels like. It feels like you got hit with the biggest rock there ever was. We were going along in the boat and we went around a beach where there was a battle, and a slug hit me in the armpit and knocked me right over.
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