Section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 14 November 2007
The energy of Alex Miller's novel Landscape of Farewell comes from the paradox that is often manifest when people of very different cultures come together and words fail them. Out of their silence can come words more profound than the individuals could have spoken alone.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Malcolm King
- 14 November 2007
It's time we called big businesses' bluff about their appropriation of the term 'creativity'. For a truly creative nation to evolve, we need to study the wild mutability of the creative process.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 31 October 2007
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The Chaser's 'Eulogy' was less about the celebrities whose deaths it celebrated, than it was about public perceptions of those celebrities. The desire to puncture the 'cult of celebrity' is a major plank in the Chaser's War.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Their lives are anchored at the verge of loss, | Like a flipped coin assurance is unlikely.| Refugees endure a prolonged journey of conflict
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 31 October 2007
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The 'troubled artist', creative but self-destructive, looms large in pop culture. The film Control offers sympathy for the artist's love ones, who are left bruised and bleeding.
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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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