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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Chris McGillion
- 13 November 2006
2 Comments
No assessment of Fidel Castro’s legacy will be complete without serious attention to his thoughts on religion and to how and why, over the past 20 years, he has turned Cuba from an international troublemaker into a global champion for social justice.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 13 November 2006
For those of us who recognise the injustice inherent to a system that could justify the imprisonment of innocent people based only on the colour of their skin, The Road To Guantanamo stands as a stark reminder that it’s not only radical Islamic fundamentalists who “terrorise” their perceived enemy.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Anne Elvey
- 13 November 2006
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"Torquay cliffs"; "Coming into town from Holy Thursday to Ash Wednesday"; "Eucharist".
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Sam Parisi, Graham Rowlands
- 30 October 2006
9 Comments
My mother seemed like someone else's sister / In a lap of luxury, while they lit their grief / With tales from light years away.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 30 October 2006
Poor McDonald’s. First, the 2002 doco Supersize Me came along to remind people that, yes, fast food is really bad for you. This year Maccas is on the defensive all over again.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michael Mullins
- 30 October 2006
A new history of the North Sydney Jesuit parish describes the turbulent '60s, during which there was a shift in the disposition of Catholics from a feeling of it being "easier than one thinks to hate oneself", towards "learning to love oneself humbly".
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- ten poets
- 30 October 2006
17 Comments
They say after the storm / you should check the tide pools / for fallen stars.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 30 October 2006
20 Comments
Denton says the people interviewed for his new film on evangelical Christianity in the USA "embody the Christian ideals of love", but absolute faith can "tell you it’s okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals".
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tony Smith
- 30 October 2006
The situation of children who experience not just a generation gap, but also a distance from parents whose migrant inheritance includes a "million scruples that made no sense".
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Sebastien de Robillard
- 30 October 2006
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Although the characters in Little Miss Sunshine are extreme in many ways, it is this very quality that allows us to most relate to them. They are a very sympathetic group, and the message of the film is that few families are truly "normal".
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michael Ashby
- 30 October 2006
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The author of The Sound of One Hand Clapping and Gould’s Book of Fish has come up with a veritable novel "for our times". Here is a gripping tale of Australia (well, Sydney at least) in the midst of a terror campaign.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Clive O'Connell
- 16 October 2006
Belgian-born Australian, Simon Leys, follows an elliptical path, allowing his readers enough latitude to bring their own experience to bear on the novella. He maintains his ironic position both amused by his hero’s progress and sympathetic to him.
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