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Author: Juliette Hughes

  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Like Attenborough

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 15 June 2006

    Watching Attenborough in his second series of The Life of Mammals  I couldn’t help noting that tinge of sadness in him; he knows the fragility of what he shows us.

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    Fast forward

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 12 June 2006

    Although it feels like last Christmas was only about four months back, it also seems like a year since Reggie Bird walked out of the Big Brother house, and an absolute aeon since Kath & Kim finished.

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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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    Of passion and belief

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 31 May 2006
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    Juliette Hughes looks at the impact of The Passion of the Christ.

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    Hot buttered bliss

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 31 May 2006

    For whatever reason, I never really got into Friends. It was the sort of thing you’d watch with the young ones, to keep up with new stuff, so that the old parent-kid relationship wasn’t so gappy.

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  • RELIGION

    Religious freedom

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 22 May 2006
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    Juliette Hughes interviews Fr Joseph Nguyen Cong Doan SJ.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The good people of Young

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 22 May 2006

    This story of one asylum seeker portrays the best and worst in our nature.

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    Territorial television

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 22 May 2006

    I’m fine now, really. The nightmares are receding, the rash is responding to aromatherapy and I’ve cut back the shrink to once a day.

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    Looking through the cracks

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 14 May 2006

    When men are cooked for, the call is for lots of fried red meat and spuds, with bacon featuring everywhere. But when they take to the stove, it’s a different story.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    An ancient culture in peril

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 14 May 2006

    George Silberbauer’s links with Botswana go back a long way, but his special concern is for Kalahari Bushmen on the verge of losing their ancestral homeland.

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    Movie reviews

    • Allan Thomas, Zane Lovitt, Lucille and Juliette Hughes, Siobhan Jackson, Allan James Thomas
    • 14 May 2006

    Reviews of the films Oldboy, Bride and Prejudice, The Illustrated Family Doctor and House of Flying Daggers.

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    Debates and discourses

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 14 May 2006

    In our house, we’ll continue to tolerate each other’s programs up to the point of nausea or embarrassment. We’ll be able to watch the animal documentaries, Media Watch, and Roy and H. G.’s new Memphis Trousers Half Hour.

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