Section: Arts And Culture
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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
1 Comment
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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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Shane McCauley
- 30 September 2008
4 Comments
I untie one small corner .. of the mosquito-net .. and the whole moon .. enters. Without the magician's .. electric hand .. clay's heart might beat
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrena Jamieson
- 26 September 2008
2 Comments
Elias' belief in freedom sees him join Che Guevara in an African campaign, and insurgent movements in Angola and Somalia. He learns that ideological commitments mask simpler human desires for riches, revenge, status and sex.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 25 September 2008
The characters provide a microcosm of Australia as a fledgling
federation. Most poignant is the place of the
film's sole Aboriginal character, a gifted pugilist who is ultimately
subservient to the purposes of the white characters.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tom Clark
- 23 September 2008
1 Comment
Peter Taylor, selected straight from .. Petersham firsts to bowl his offies .. for the baggy green, taught us how .. the 'Strayan dream can fizz and spit .. through Sydney's fond atmosphere.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Alexandra Coghlan
- 19 September 2008
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George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh occupied opposing aesthetic, philosophical and political poles. This conceptually agile book suggests they attained moral — if not spiritual — agreement from fundamentally opposing directions.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 17 September 2008
1 Comment
The rumoured potential of the Large Hadron Collider to bring about the disintegration of the universe captured the public imagination. 'Hadron' is a word susceptible to misprinting of a kind that destroys the seriousness of any discussion.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- P. S. Cottier
- 16 September 2008
Do they stroke it with avid fingers, this palm tree lock that once grew from the full head of quietest genius? .. Scalping would be too much, headhunting too tropical .. but buying the hair of a dead woman you can't know .. is quite the thing
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Mendes
- 12 September 2008
34 Comments
Benny Morris, Israel's best-known revisionist historian, led more and more Israelis and Diaspora Jews in the 1980s to accept
the legitimacy of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and
Gaza Strip. Morris has changed his spots.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 11 September 2008
3 Comments
The previous films of director Michael Haneke depict a media-saturated society disconnected from reality. His latest release is a critique of 'violence as entertainment', and every audience member is implicated.
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