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ARTS AND CULTURE
Jeff Waters relates the death in custody of Mulrunji Doomadgee on Palm Island and the acquittal of the police officer involved. Mulrunji's death reflects a nationwide context where cherished institutions of western democracy are unavailable to many Indigenous people.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 03 July 2008
From its opening scene, The Band's Visit strikes a tone that is at once funny and sad. The film prods cross-cultural disparity for humour and stirs the humanity of its simple story.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Morag Fraser
- 02 July 2008
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When we began Eureka Street in 1991, it was a given that we'd publish a cryptic crossword. I like to believe it was divinely ordained that it should be Joan, only and always, who'd keep us gridded, intellectually tempered and clued up.
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the noose .. in a loop around his neck .. in a loop on CNN .. over and over again
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Kevin Brophy
- 27 June 2008
Since the 18th century, Aboriginal writers have used the English language to make their presence felt in the face of colonisation. This anthology of Aboriginal writing goes beyond 'literature' to suggest a national counter-narrative.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 26 June 2008
Half way through Happy-Go-Lucky, effervescent heroine Poppy encounters a homeless man under a bridge. The scene marks the emergence of a serious subtext in the upbeat film, regarding the tension between personal and social expectations about how best to live.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
One time we were in a meeting when a very important person proposed a very stupid idea. We knew our uncivil friend would pop a gasket, and he did, albeit in memorably incisive fashion. The silence that followed was a remarkable sound.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Chenoah Ellis
- 24 June 2008
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Sky is gigantic in Cloncurry .. And the sun sets ever so late .. The bars are open all night .. So the drunks can get drunker .. And their anger turn to hate
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Richard White
- 20 June 2008
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Apophatic theology emphasises
what we do not know about the great mysteries. Sweet Sorrow is a map for the mystery of death, but just as maps of old warned
'here there be dragons', this account cautions, 'here there
be questions'.
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- Tim Kroenert
- 19 June 2008
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Unfinished Sky succeeds as a sweetly observed, cross-cultural love story. Themes regarding human trafficking and sexual slavery are exploited, not, it seems, from genuine concern, but in a misguided attempt to lend the film social clout.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 18 June 2008
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Things are Kafkaesque when you are caught in a labyrinth of
unmanageable and inexplicable circumstances. I sprang to the phone and a pleasant, robotic female voice told me how valuable I was and that I was sixth in the
queue.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jeff Klooger
- 17 June 2008
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We can no longer hope to know the simple satisfaction of hardship, amuse ourselves with subtler privations, pricking our thumbs on death's sharp edges .. Miracles happen almost every day, and money .. wants to be wasted.
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