section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 10 April 2008
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The Australian Catholic Church and public life are the poorer for the passing of John Button and Archbishop Frank Little earlier this week. They both knew much about winning, but more about losing, and treated all they met with great respect.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 10 April 2008
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Norma Khouri's fraudulent account of a friend's honour killing became a bestseller before her lie was exposed. Forbidden Lies also considers the way media
spin facts into versions of the truth, and how artists use licence to carry their cause.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ian Woolverton
- 09 April 2008
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Apnalaya, a Mumbai-based non government organisation that works with slum dwellers, commissioned Melbourne photographer Ian Woolverton to create a photo essay of scenes from Mumbai. Eureka Street presents a selection of images from this powerful essay.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
My first meeting greeting is almost hummed, vestment of thongs.. rough hands shake across meeting room circles of disposable chairs.. Avocado oils, unleavened bread and cheap coffee
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ARTS AND CULTURE
The most profound shock to Australian foreign policy was not 9/11 but our change of government in 1996. Under Rudd Labor, Australia's international agenda is once again becoming less about national security and more about being a good international citizen.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 03 April 2008
Grief is a raw and complex emotion, and After Him evokes it beautifully. Anyone who has ever lost someone close to them will empathise with Camille as she copes with the death of her teenage son.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michele Gierck
- 02 April 2008
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On 28 April 1990, a letter bomb mailed to Michael Lapsley's Harare home destroyed both of his hands and one of his eyes. His life, and 'Healing of Memories' program, proves that it is possible to overcome the trauma of political persecution.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Steele
- 01 April 2008
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Did Colman's mouse, nibbling his ear, provoke him.. indeed to worship?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrena Jamieson
- 28 March 2008
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Adherents of many religious groups are interviewed about their beliefs, practices, ethical framework and attitude to contemporary Australian society. Their stories often try to make points of contact between religious practice and Western culture.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 27 March 2008
A socially awkward young man orders an artificial girlfriend over the internet. Despite this ostensibly bawdy premise, Lars and the Real Girl looks beyond lowbrow laughs in its focus on the responses of those in Lars' community.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 26 March 2008
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Camus' plague was a metaphor for the Second World War German occupation of France. Our plague is no metaphor. It's the truth of the planet's advancing impatience with its reckless colonisers.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 26 March 2008
You find all kinds of books in people's cars — from novels and comics to atlases and bibles. The books people carry reveal something of their life and experiences.
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