section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gary Pearce
- 08 August 2007
Nobel laureate Günter Grass’s memoir became controversial last year due to revelations that he had been a member of the Waffen SS. It reveals that he feels both intimately connected with, and uncomprehending of, his younger self.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jaya Savige
- 08 August 2007
How could they intuit the pricelessness of a warm welcome? / benign as Mugabe, market forces the not-so-new religion
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 08 August 2007
The director of a new Australian film on the migration experience depicts the resilience of childhood. He also aims to evoke from his audience a degree of compassion for a difficult, struggling mother.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Trevor was having trouble getting his big bay gelding called Clive, aka ‘The Flyer’, into his float. Clive was meant to be at the races in a couple of hours, but he was snorting and stamping and being distinctly uncooperative. Clive was trying to tell him something.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 25 July 2007
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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.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Steele
- 25 July 2007
A poem recollecting visits to the Jesuit-run Belvedere College, in the north of Dublin, where James Joyce had most of his secondary schooling.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michael Mullins
- 25 July 2007
The Australian character is set against that of the European nations from which the 'new Australians' arrived after World War II. For them, Australia offered "considerably safety and little menace", but heavily curtained windows rather than dancing in the streets they were accustomed to.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 25 July 2007
Country people are welcoming. They smile at you, however vaguely, passing in the street, and shopkeepers and tradespeople are invariably polite and helpful. But there is the odd exception, sometimes the very odd exception.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Joanna Cruickshank
- 25 July 2007
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At a German mission in Victoria's Wimmera, a young Wotjobaluk man converted to Christianity in 1860. After a vision of Jesus sweating blood in Gethsemane, he began evangelising his people in their own language.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
A 19th century dispute over rights to whale on Victoria’s western coast saw a massacre of local Aboriginal people. The image of uniformed, white officers appearing in Aboriginal communities, supposedly to restore order and protect children, gives eerie timeliness to an uncompromising new account by Bruce Pascoe.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 11 July 2007
Lucky Miles is an outrageous buddy comedy set in 1990 in the Western Australian wilderness, with echoes of September 11, border security, and the totalitarian Indigenous intervention. This topicality borders on prophetic, as the film was conceived seven years ago.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
The sound of the horse races is my father’s music / A soft dream hidden by ambition / take other paths or just stay put / silence(d) / beer and didgeredoo / the time it might take in getting home.
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