Section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 26 March 2009
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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