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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 26 February 2009
2 Comments
We received an email from an acquaintance of Harry Nicolaides, a journalist and Eureka Street contributor. Harry had been arrested in Bangkok: 'Publish his story. He is in a bad condition. Please help.' We acted immediately.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Margaret McCarthy
- 24 February 2009
9 Comments
But there are times .. as I pass through half-life .. when I want to fly up where you are .. drift as far as the geometric pattern cuttings of the docks .. where the Yarra Yarra and the Maribyrnong meet
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tony Smith
- 20 February 2009
In contrast to tabloid
television coverage of fires, Lohrey's writing explains much of our relationship to the bush. Like plaques in town halls honouring fallen soldiers, the task of rebuilding devastated communities is embedded in the national psyche.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 19 February 2009
5 Comments
Idiopathic hyperhydrosis is an unpleasant affliction, and discussion of such does not constitute polite conversation. Kym's affliction is more debilitating: she's an addict, home from rehab to help celebrate her sister's nuptials.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jeanne Conte
- 18 February 2009
2 Comments
The vast majority of Turkey's citizens are Muslim, yet
they preserve and share their cultural history with the nation's Christians. Many Christian sites
are revered by Muslims as well.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Marlene Marburg and Grant Fraser
- 17 February 2009
2 Comments
flame .. Might ignite the instant .. And go wildly on the palsy of the wind .. So that a shock of parrots thunders forth .. Spewing slipstreams of fire .. A vomitus of barbary sparks .. So that our lungs are cooped with ash
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 13 February 2009
13 Comments
The world of pop music is dominated by prettiness and skin-deep perfection. In that context, Cohen's greatness is not instantly discernable. Lately a Buddhist, he has spent his latter years in study of religion — 'But cheerfulness keeps breaking through.'
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 12 February 2009
3 Comments
Kevin Rudd controversially told Channel Nine's Today show that the Victorian firebugs had committed 'mass murder'. Grief and anger compete during such times, and for armchair critics it is often all too easy to take the moral high ground.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 11 February 2009
7 Comments
Fires and floods, murderous cyclones, unprecedented storms — none of them confined to their time honoured places and seasons. Nature is no longer our familiar element
and our inspiration. It's running amok.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Kevin Gillam and Ben Hession
- 10 February 2009
your community
is at call and liberty ... stands o'er an alien harbour ... the land of promise wherein thou art a stranger
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 06 February 2009
'Toxic feedback' is an occupational hazard for columnists. You learn to
ignore the aspiration of some readers to see you fed to sharks
or eviscerated in public, but the pedants are harder to cop.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 05 February 2009
6 Comments
Never mind purgatory: suburbia is hell, barbed with tedious career
obligations, awash with too-bright light
that leaves the skin looking transluscent, and populated with
overly-cheerful, deluded demons.
I was raised in the 'burbs, and still live there.
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