section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 16 October 2008
In 1974 French acrobat Philippe Petit balanced mortality and destiny on a wire between New York City's Twin Towers. This documentary imbues Petit's dizzying, existential quest with the dramatic tension of a bank heist.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 15 October 2008
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Recent events both aeronautical and financial have been enough to scare anyone off banks and aeroplanes forever. Global economic chaos is nothing compared with the trauma of being stuck next to a large person on a plane.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Deborah Ruiz Wall
- 14 October 2008
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and so it was, in Canberra .. alongside screens from across the globe .. where many eyes focused on this fateful day to witness
.. a new national leader seize the first opportunity
.. to begin his regime with one word
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 13 October 2008
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News last week of the death of Dom Placid Spearritt, Abbot of New Norcia Abbey, was set among the daily
chronicles of financial collapse around the world. That seemed
paradoxical.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 10 October 2008
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Intelligent Design inhabits the shell-pocked no-man's land between science and religion. Steve Fuller argues that it should be taught as an option because science depends on religion. But his version of religion will set pious teeth on edge.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian McCoy
- 09 October 2008
6 Comments
Those of us not of Aboriginal ancestry can be tempted to see our origins in foreign lands. Although we may not share the identity of First Australians, we owe the benefits of our lives to the land that was, and continues to be, theirs.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brendan Ryan
- 07 October 2008
newspaper sub-headings — 'war on terror' .. each page apportioning blame .. every fridge doing its bit .. modest ceremonies for the men who jumped .. to enlist, to escape
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 06 October 2008
5 Comments
Mental illness has always been with us. Hippocrates attached melancholia to an excess of black bile. Christ cast out demons from the afflicted.
My sister suicided after years of suffering, undiagnosed because of fear of stigma.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ruby J. Murray
- 03 October 2008
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Paradoxes can be hard to digest, but it doesn't mean they're not good for you. During question time, the panellists try hard not to disagree with each other on the state of modern feminism. My g-string's giving me a wedgie, and I shift uncomfortably.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Saeed Saeed
- 03 October 2008
The Catch the Fire Ministries religious vilification case was used for political means by both Muslims and Christians. Deen's account discusses wider issues such as the global rise of Islamaphobia, John
Howard's identity politics and the Cronulla
Riots.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 02 October 2008
Famous for being famous, the Duchess of Devonshire is an independent woman in a man's world. A more substantial script might have evoked the subordinate role of women in Western politics, or slyly spoofed the cult of celebrity.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Colleen Schirmer
- 01 October 2008
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The black and tan fox terrier bared its teeth
and growled. Its milk-swollen underbelly let us know it had a litter nearby. We were at the farmhouse, revisiting the place where it had happened, to strip the events of their power.
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