section: Arts And Culture
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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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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michelle O'Connor | Tammy Ho Lai-Ming
- 18 November 2008
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It would have to be the world-wide web... wouldn't it? ... But you wouldn't call it hubris, would you?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Paul Collins
- 14 November 2008
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SBS television has been called many things, including the 'sexual broadcasting
service', because of the risqué foreign language films that it shows. SBS radio is the ultimate melting pot, a symbol of an inclusive Australian
multiculturalism in which different languages and cultures are
respected.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 13 November 2008
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The Edmund Rice Centre's Phil Glendenning is is the ordinary gruff Australian bloke abroad - a
Merv Hughes or an Ian Chappell, not naturally articulate but enduring
and not to be fobbed off with smooth talk. His
silent listening is the moral centre of this powerful SBS TV documentary about returned asylum seekers.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Max Richards
- 11 November 2008
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Old colleague, McCann.. (philosophy, retired), still with the sad face and the gaberdine mac.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Chris Laming
- 07 November 2008
After nearly 40 years living in Indigenous communities, Brian McCoy manages to move through difficult terrain with the sure-footedness of an ancient Aboriginal tracker, and a confidence founded on years of sitting, listening, observing and quietly healing.
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