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In the Orthodox Church, Lent is a fairly strict period of austerity, which is one reason for Carnival: traditional societies have long understood that sessions of high spirits are needed before and after difficult times. They are also undisturbed by the blurring of the sacred and the secular.
According to the Ethiopian ecclesiastical calendar, a leap year belongs to St Luke. Having made its national apology to the Stolen Generations, for Australia this leap year has more in common with China's Great Leap Forward.
Or is it? Gillian Bouras gardens in Greece.
Letters from Helen Noakes, Frank Donovan, Alistair Pound and Frank Brennan.
Gillian Bouras looks at the role of the body in death
In extremis, we seek what we know, or something very close to it.
Ulm Minster is a testament to the eternal longing humans have always had for understanding
Forty years after she first saw the film Zorba the Greek, an Australian in Greece takes a second look and finds herself deeply shocked
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