Section: Arts And Culture
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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
- Debbie Lustig
- 13 December 2007
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I nearly drowned in fulfilment, surfacing like a batfish gaping at scraps. No words only our breathing – two people
in a garage. Workbenched, love-bolted.
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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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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Rochelle Siemienowicz
- 12 December 2007
The most recognisable Bob Dylan in this multi-Dylan film is infuriating. Hollow, vain and abusive. But also vulnerable and pitiable; an angry animal pacing his cage.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 12 December 2007
Vinnies founder Frederic Ozanam kept a single-minded focus on the faces of the poor in 19th century France, while at the same time playing the role that churches and church organisations need to play in political life.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 12 December 2007
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Revealing his poetic side when the ship was turned away from Kuwait, Truss explained to Parliament that the sheep were beginning 'their long, lonely journey down the gulf'. As the responsible minister, he later repressed his lyricism and reverted to political jargon.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Shane McCauley
- 12 December 2007
Enough will be there if you can learn the language of fragments.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 14 November 2007
A person unaware of and cut off from nature will be taken by surprise when nature embarks on one of its punitive cycles. The Romantic poets reckoned that there was a spirit within the natural world that you could connect with.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 14 November 2007
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Boxing Day is a low-budget Australian film that combines different techniques to achieve a simmering fly-on-the-wall documentary-style drama. It seeks hope and forgiveness against a low-income suburban landscape, in a way that contributes to the broader story of reconciliation.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Daniel J. P.
- 14 November 2007
Well-appointed prospects but ill-advised devices | And improper solutions prompting mixed sugar and spices.
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