Author: Catherine Marshall
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Catherine Marshall
- 22 December 2010
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It started with a trip to Bethlehem, and has come to this: gift-laden, work-weary travellers clogging flight paths and highways like swirling snowflakes. But I stay home, draw my memories around me, and embark on a beautiful journey into the past.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Catherine Marshall
- 26 November 2010
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The living are burdened with responsibility for those who have died. New Zealand can take strength from Cambodia, a country to whom tragedy is no stranger, reaching out in communion as each of them comes to terms with the torment of loss and bereavement.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Catherine Marshall
- 13 October 2010
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Raw earth passed by, centimetres from my eyes. Light seeped away, and all that was left was the sound of my breathing. Then a beam of light from a miner's hat reached towards me. A voice greeted me and a hand helped me to climb out. I did an interview, there in the dark, with the faceless person before me.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Catherine Marshall
- 07 October 2010
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In seeking to fill a mother's empty womb, Nobel Prize winning biologist Robert Edwards developed a solution. In so doing he confirmed what all innovators know: that progress doesn't occur in a neat and orderly vacuum, and nor should it be halted for fear of what it might produce.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Catherine Marshall
- 13 September 2010
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'The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page,' said St Augustine. Drunk, libidinous and scantily-clad tourists unleashed on idyllic
locales were certainly not what Augustine had in mind when he spoke so
eloquently of the virtue of travel.
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 02 August 2010
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Given that eruvs are inconspicuous, and religious freedom in Australia is a fait accompli,
there can be only one explanation for the prevailing sentiment, and
that is a subtle prejudice which represents the great big elephant in
the room for anyone living on Sydney's North Shore.
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 25 June 2010
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Rudd's eviction should strike fear into the hearts of feminists
everywhere. For this is how the Labor Government operates, unsheathing
the swords, wrenching power, cutting down a leader before he has had
time to really prove himself. Imagine what it will do when that leader
is a woman.
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 06 May 2010
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What's the difference between wanting a thin wife and wanting an invisible wife? Which is more democratic: the western tendency to idealise the porn-star aesthetic, or the old-fashioned imperative for modesty and virtue?
When the chips are down, is raunch culture really more dignifying than discretion?
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INTERNATIONAL
- Catherine Marshall
- 11 February 2010
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I clearly remember what I was doing the day Nelson Mandela walked free from prison. The behemoth apartheid state shifted so thoroughly and so smoothly that
even the erratic events of the past 20 years have done little to
diminish South Africa's reputation as a miracle nation.
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 29 January 2010
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Tony Abbott and I have something in common: we've both been having the sex talk with our teenage daughters.
The bizarre glorification of virginity and the latent distaste of our
daughters' sexuality removes the very power with which we strive to arm
them.
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 11 January 2010
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Whether grotesquely augmented, stricken with cancer or tumbling
unbidden from the frocks of soccer wives, breasts guarantee rapt
attention.
But never are these appendages more hotly debated than when they are being used according to their very purpose and design. October 2009
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 19 October 2009
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Whether grotesquely augmented, stricken with cancer or tumbling
unbidden from the frocks of soccer wives, breasts guarantee rapt
attention.
But never are these appendages more hotly debated than when they are being used according to their very purpose and design.
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