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ARTS AND CULTURE
- P. S. Cottier
- 05 February 2008
3 Comments
Seven kids and a parrot in a small terrace house.. One sudden day, they spread wings.. Better those times than the perfect couple's renovating din..
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Malcolm King
- 04 February 2008
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In October 1998, the writer raided departmental library budgets in order to place in his university library, $27,000 worth of books he believed it should own. Before leaving his job, he inspected the books in the library and was convinced he had "done good by doing bad".
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Terry Monagle
- 01 February 2008
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Michael Bernard Kelly undergoes the personal struggle to reconcile his own deep faith with being proudly gay. He
then takes up the fight for acceptance of gays in the Catholic Church.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 31 January 2008
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Sweeney Todd is a cautionary tale, but it's more than that. Todd's ultimatetragedy is that his all-consuming quest for revenge blinds him to thethings that could make him happy again.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
A new exhibition of compelling and confronting photographs captures the impact of natural disasters and other humanitarian emergencies, and the crucial role of Australian aid workers and volunteers in the initial response and longer term rebuilding process.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Robin Koning
- 24 January 2008
14 Comments
Too often, generic statements about missionaries colluding with colonialism and destroying indigenous cultures are presumed to say all that needs to be said. Detailed study of mission history is essential if we are to move beyond the clichés.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 23 January 2008
Amir returns home to confront the guilt from his childhood. He finds the Taliban is in power, and his home city of Kabul lies in waste. The film's heavy-handed pathos detracts from the political sub-plot.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Rosemary Crumlin
- 22 January 2008
At Turkey Creek, George Mung had carved a statue out of a piece of tree, a work of extraordinary beauty. Here it was, sitting on top of a hot-water system. 'You take it,' he said, 'I'll do another one.' (Eureka Street March 1991)
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- P. S. Cottier
- 21 January 2008
When I turned twenty I thought the world could be changed like a pair of jeans ...
At forty, I realised I'd better decide what I'd be when I grew up.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Hilary Rogers
- 09 January 2008
There’s
something very reassuring about the idea that what we loved to read
will still appeal to kids now. Choosing a brand of food for our pets is
less fraught, unless we were dogs in past lives. From 15 May 2007.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 09 January 2008
1 Comment
What
with the Ashes being a let down, the One Day Internationals more
interminable than ever and Federer just too bloody good, serious
students of TV sport might instead turn their attention to the National Scrabble Masters Tournament. From 27 February 2007.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jaya Savige
- 09 January 2008
How could they intuit the pricelessness of a warm welcome? / benign as Mugabe, market forces the not-so-new religion From 9 August 2007.
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