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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 24 July 2008
Batman has no superpowers, but his rage against injustice elevates him to the realm of 'superhero'. He is dark and brutal, arguably a fascist, but prone to soul-searching. The Dark Knight may prove to be the best film of 2008.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 23 July 2008
The Great Uraidla Pub Mural was the wonder and enigma of locals and tourists alike. The occasional knowledgeable blow-in would be flabbergasted and deeply impressed to find 'a Tom Gleghorn' on the wall.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Earl Livings
- 22 July 2008
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In his first serious essay .. he applies Occam's razor .. to God's reputation .. he favours the universe as is .. launched by laws of urge and reaction .. no recourse to maker or judge.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Marion Halligan has a fine appreciation of the literary process linking author and reader. In Murder on the Apricot Coast she teases with a
critique of sequels and argues that only the reader's imagination can
extend the lives of literary characters.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 17 July 2008
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The Iñigo Film Festival features films that reflect spiritual experience or the link between faith and justice. The Judas Pane plays upon traditional understandings of the gospels and critiques the subjective depiction of religious icons.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Chris McGillion
- 16 July 2008
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Australians see themselves more as a sunburnt people than as people of a sunburnt country. The Aboriginal smoking ceremony during the Papal Mass introduced a distinctive spirituality where reflection upon the physical environment is key. (April 1995)
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- B. N. Oakman
- 15 July 2008
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There's more silver in my teeth
.. than in our trophy cupboard .. Gravestones bear witness to our only premiership .. Every year we leap for the heavens
.. and flop in the gutter .. My football team is hopeless.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Eureka Street has five prize packs to give away, each containing a double pass to see the movie Salute, plus a copy of the Peter Norman biography book A Race to Remember. Plus, listen to Tim Kroenert's interview with Salute director and Peter Norman's nephew, Matt Norman
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Amid the Eastern Bloc ruins, Sasha wears her disenfranchisement like a seasoned dissident, while her mother wants to turn her into a good little Soviet. Petropolis employs comic absurdity in order to examine the human condition.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- John Bartlett
- 10 July 2008
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Nations need to believe in the nobility of their soldiers — anything less would be unbearable. There is an excess of ugliness in German artist Otto Dix's Der Krieg Cycle, perhaps the most powerful and unpleasant antiwar statement in modern art.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
As a reader, it's satisfying to reach that moment when you realise you don't have to finish the book you've been ploughing through. A book's unfinishability reflects less on the reader than on the writer. Even great writers flop sometimes.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jo McInerney
- 08 July 2008
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It was easy to find the centre of the blast .. an eternity of razed houses, a stony desert .. dead soil, waiting for rain .. I write home often. My letters are cheerful.
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