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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 31 October 2007
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For Richard Dawkins, excitement about the visible world leads only to analytical questions. The task of those who oppose this view is to describe the richness of the alternative.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Frank Brennan
- 25 October 2007
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We come to bid farewell to Robert Lindsay Collins, the proud Territorian, the larger than life Leader of the Opposition and Labor Minister, the loving father of Robbie, Libby and Daniel, the faithful spouse of Rosemary, and raucous friend of many of us gathered here today in St Mary's Cathedral Darwin.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 17 October 2007
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When reconciliation becomes a last-minute vote catcher, only the deepest, most corrosive cynicism is possible. Trampling on the rights of others for political advantage was the modus operandi of Adelaide's Nomenclature Committee in 1837.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 17 October 2007
Despite dwelling at opposite ends of the power spectrum, the two characters each know the desire to seek a new life in a new land, and have both experienced first-hand how difficult and painful that transition can be.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Richard Flynn
- 17 October 2007
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.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Spirited away nestled in a feathered chest we close our eyes against the dappled, vaulted light, riding the high notes beyond pain.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Fitzroy Community School students
- 03 October 2007
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A selection poems on the theme of colour, written by five students at the Fitzroy Community School in Melbourne, aged between 5 and 12.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Richard Leonard
- 03 October 2007
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Accepting a peer award recently, Sydney Morning Herald film critic Paul Byrnes declared serious film criticism to be in trouble. 'Much of the public now believes that a great film can't be great unless the box office makes it great.' He has a point.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 03 October 2007
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In a time of perplexity about Catholicism and religion generally, the
perspective of Christian Brothers' founder Edmund Rice is strongly anchored in a faith focused on the
neediest groups in society. It points us towards recognising the good values and motives of those with whom
we differ.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 19 September 2007
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Digital photography allows the easy recording of almost every moment of our lives. Putting to your dog the proposition 'The unexamined life is not worth living', he would look at you with an expression that respectfully suggested, 'Human beings are so dumb'.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ian C Smith
- 19 September 2007
Writing music and busking now, abstinence and rice have rendered him thin. / The film industry's movers and shakers must seem a long way behind now, his days of editing, a retrospective haze.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 19 September 2007
With his shag of grey hair and weather-worn face, Aussie journalist-cum-documentarian pits his astute investigative mind and radical's spirit against no lesser rival than the American political empire.
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