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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Robin Koning
- 24 January 2008
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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
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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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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Richard Flynn
- 09 January 2008
As
Australians wait for a Federal election, Hilary Glow’s book is timely
evidence that what is wrong with the world is what politicians would
have us believe. Contemporary playwrights are wrestling with the issues
seen as crucial to the notion of who we really are as Australians in the twenty-first century. From 17 October 2007.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 09 January 2008
This
year marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in
Britain. Social justice organisations around the world are using the
film Amazing Grace to put a spotlight on the modern trade in human trafficking. From 25 July 2007.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 13 December 2007
In the world of popular music, the transition from intimate theatre or festival gigs, to stadium rock shows, indicates the move from an authentic emphasis on great music, to 'music as spectacle', or pure commerce. It appears Missy Higgins has reached this point.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Rochelle Siemienowicz
- 13 December 2007
The bright eyes of youth often see clearly the things that are wrong with society. 22-year-old Christopher McCandless donates his life savings to Oxfam and sets off on a two-year journey concluding in the isolated wilds of tooth-and-claw Alaska.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Alexandra Coghlan
- 13 December 2007
The recurrence of the ‘big' issues of politics, religion, and sexuality in Best Australian Essays 2007 is predictable enough. But the essays become more interesting when we see particular trends, such as surveillance and the individual's right to privacy, emerge in each.
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