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Rebuffing the religious right
- Peter Kirkwood
- 16 November 2012
Obama's election win was a rebuff to America's ultra-conservatives, including the religious right. Extremists in this camp see the Second Coming as imminent, and view God as vengeful and violent. John Dominic Crossan has spent his adult life trying to lead Christians to a more thoughtful and educated view of the Bible.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Beasts of the climate change apocalypse
- Tim Kroenert
- 13 September 2012
It is often the poor who suffer most in a disaster. When the polar ice caps melt, rising seawaters flood an impoverished southern American bayou town. The survivors destroy a dam that keeps the nearby city dry and their village flooded. The indictment here of the prosperous West is hard to miss.
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AUSTRALIA

Love, the Northern Territory Intervention's missing ingredient
- Andrew Chalk
- 11 October 2011
5 Comments
Many Australians have reached a point of believing that the difficulties afflicting Aboriginal communities demand the heavy handed, and often humiliating, approach. But the Philppine grassroots Gawad Kalinga model, based on 'the giving of care', offers a realistic alternative.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Good journalism and Murdoch's pie-gate
- Tim Kroenert
- 21 July 2011
1 Comment
Rupert Murdoch's News International has found itself with more than egg on its face over the News of the World scandal. As this case reveals journalism at its most prurient and base, a new film pays tribute to journalism at its most noble and courageous.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Teen sexuality at the apocalypse
- Tim Kroenert
- 17 March 2011
New Queer Cinema is a genre marked by its robust portrayal of gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender protagonists, usually as outsiders or renegades from conventional society. Alienation and otherness drive the characters into each other's orbits with the force of a familial bond.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Iceland's ash cloud of the apocalypse
- Brian Matthews
- 19 May 2010
9 Comments
If Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano erruption was disruptive, its cousin Katla may have worse in store. Volcanoes, emanating a kind of preternatural, primal, patience, are landlords whose unchanging message is: you are renting; you haven't bought.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Fatherhood after the apocalypse
- Tim Kroenert
- 04 February 2010
5 Comments
The blurring of right and wrong in a world where civil structures have disintegrated, is seen in the Man's escalating wildness; his desperation to preserve the life of his son, and his conviction that the end of survival justifies a growing list of dubious means.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Cannibal convict's tour of hell
- Tim Kroenert
- 24 September 2009
1 Comment
The first feature film about Australia's most notorious convict shares a potent symbiosis with Dante's Inferno. Director Jonathan auf der Heide believes there is a repressed need for violence beneath the 'veil' of human civilisation.
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AUSTRALIA

Getting a grip on swine flu hysteria
- Michael Mullins
- 04 May 2009
3 Comments
The Herald Sun's Andrew Bolt has provided a welcome critique of 'pig flu' fear-mongering by the Australian media. But he falls into a similarly myopic trap that misses the global perspective.
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AUSTRALIA

Pakistan is not doomed
- Kimberley Layton
- 03 April 2009
1 Comment
In due course the Taliban problem will be confronted and hopefully resolved, but not before the internal political situation stabilises. Patience is a virtue in Pakistan. The situation is not improving quickly, but it does seem to be improving.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Uncreation story
- Val Yule
- 12 August 2008
3 Comments
Mountains and hills! Men bore, quarry and scalp them .. Fruit trees and cedars! Men spray them and clearfell them .. Beasts and cattle! Men extinguish or factory-farm them .. Creeping things and flying birds! Men wipe them out also.
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AUSTRALIA

Cardinal Pell's views on climate change are his own
- Michael Mullins
- 31 October 2007
4 Comments
Cardinal Pell does not underscore his climate change denial with theological justification, as he does with his position on issues such as human cloning. It is unfair to him, and to the Catholic Church, to assume that his personal views on climate change represent Church teaching.
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Keywords: Apocalypse