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March 2004

01 March 2004


 

  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Ars artis gratia

    • Kevin Summers
    • 07 June 2006

    Kevin Summers reflects on art for arts sake in Silencia.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Fine friends

    • Kirsty Grant
    • 07 June 2006

    Kirsty Grant reveals a world of decadence in Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Shimmering darkness

    • Peter Craven
    • 07 June 2006

    Peter Craven casts light on the Dance of Death.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Sumptuous feast

    • Ruth Lovell
    • 07 June 2006

    Ruth Lovell savours Tiepolo’s Cleopatra by Jaynie Anderson.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Emily Millane, Beth Doherty, Chloe Wilson and Godfrey Moase
    • 07 June 2006

    Orwell’s Australia: From Cold War to Culture Wars | A Woman of Independence | The Man Who Knew Too Much

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Film reviews

    • Allan James Thomas, Siobhan Jackson and Morag Fraser
    • 07 June 2006

    Cruising Samurai | Big Fish | Good bye Lenin! | Cold Mountain

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Whodunnit

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 07 June 2006

    If economic rationalism has hit Australia hard, with the widening gap between rich and poor, the damage I’ve seen in my birth country has been far worse.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Ethics v. politics

    • David Ferris
    • 06 June 2006

    David Ferris reviews The Ethical State? Social Liberalism in Australia by Marian Sawer.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Belonging: One fan’s Tugga Waugh

    • Gabriel Smith
    • 06 June 2006

    Gabriel Smith salutes Steve Waugh.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The great novel

    • Andrew Coorey
    • 06 June 2006

    Andrew Coorey proclaims The Middle Parts  of Fortune by Frederic Manning.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Encountering the homeless

    • Jane Mayo Carolan
    • 06 June 2006

    Jane Mayo Carolan confronts poverty in Australia.

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  • RELIGION

    A common prayer

    • Beth Doherty
    • 06 June 2006

    'Should I shake someone’s hand or will it offend?’  ‘Should I have my head covered?’ ‘Will they think I’m really thick if I ask why they do that?’. These were some of the common concerns for the 30 young people involved in a multi-faith experiment in late January.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Words and images

    • Kirsty Sangster
    • 06 June 2006

    Kirsty Sangster on Plenty: Art into Poetry  by Peter Steele.    

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Holy ground

    • Ralph Carolan
    • 06 June 2006

    Ralph Carolan visits The Temple Down the Road: The life and times of the MCG by Brian Matthews.

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  • EDUCATION

    Values fruitful

    • Christopher Gleeson
    • 05 June 2006

    Recent statements by government leaders accusing their own schools of ‘values neutral’ education demonstrate clearly how out of touch they are with teaching and learning in the nation’s classrooms.

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  • INFORMATION

    Letters to Eureka Street

    • Philip Mendes, Stephen Brown
    • 05 June 2006

    What is anti-Semitism? | The undeserving poor

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Pride of Erin

    • John Carmody, Morag Fraser, Peter Pierce
    • 05 June 2006

    Pride of Erin | Across the fence | Descending gloom

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  • RELIGION

    Theology of conversation

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 05 June 2006

    Passing on inherited wisdom is always fraught. Especially when the wisdom clashes with that of the prevailing culture.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Monkey business

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 05 June 2006

    You don’t have to delve far into the media to recognise what a difficulty homosexuality presents for the Christian churches and to society in general. It’s no less a problem for biology.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The inconvenient truth

    • Jack Waterford
    • 05 June 2006

    By any standards it seems a fine kettle of fish. Most of the intelligence gathered by two of the best-equipped nations on earth seems to have been false.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Fuel to burn

    • Brian Matthews
    • 05 June 2006

    As far as events in the Place de l’Horloge are concerned, Madame Gauguin is the one who knows all.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Thinly veiled

    • Joshua Puls
    • 05 June 2006

    In a knee-jerk of anti-terrorist fervour, the French Government seems to want religion to be totally private, walled in.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Selective collectives

    • Nicholas Way
    • 05 June 2006

    The Federal Government abhors workers using unions to bargain collectively. But there is different thinking for small business.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Barcelona

    • Jorie Manefield Ryan
    • 05 June 2006

    Poem by Jorie Manefield Ryan

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Talking to Auntie

    • Brendan Ryan
    • 05 June 2006
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    Poem by Brendan Ryan

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  • MEDIA

    Peace correspondents: The new reporters

    • Jan Forrester
    • 05 June 2006

    Conventional journalism portrays war as a zero sum game, a series of violent exchanges between contending parties. ‘War reporting’ requires clear winners and losers, and the media interprets the events contributing to conflict accordingly.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Common thread

    • David Holdcroft
    • 05 June 2006

    David Holdcroft writes on the colourful culture at the World Social Forum.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    United they stand

    • David Glanz
    • 05 June 2006

    David Glanz on the World Social Forum’s agenda.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Evolving Guatemala

    • Peter Hamilton
    • 05 June 2006

    Peter Hamilton reflects on Guatemala, and the features of the old city, Antigua.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Love’s Brother

    • Lucille Hughes
    • 05 June 2006

    Lucille Hughes discusses  the state of the Australian film industry

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Cuban rhythms

    • Jacqueline Dalmau
    • 05 June 2006

    Jacqueline Dalmau’s Cuba.

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