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Keywords: Arts

  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Women and madness

    • Alexandra Coghlan
    • 30 May 2008
    1 Comment

    A change of British statutes in 1815 gave mental illness a new public face that was unequivocally female. Mad, Bad and Sad is a new study that charts the role of madness as a barometer of the values, concerns and morals of its day.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    'Buy Australian' catchcry fuels arts renaissance

    • Richard Flynn
    • 16 May 2008
    1 Comment

    Between 1968 and 1981, performance spaces such as the Pram Factory in Melbourne facilitated a flourishing of the Australian theatre scene. Initially, the idea that the local product might be inferior was insufficient reason for preferring the import.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The human face of Burma's death toll

    • Anonymous
    • 14 May 2008
    3 Comments

    Today I returned from one of the areas most affected by the cyclone. I have seen the suffering of the graceful people who live in these parts. Burma is in deep mourning, but we are doing what we can to help.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Baptism by fire

    • Brett McBean
    • 07 May 2008
    3 Comments

    You're in a forest somewhere, lying facedown in a box. With a jolt, the box starts to move; a gradual ascent, like a roller coaster beginning its climb to the top of the rise. You feel as though you haven't really lived your life, merely viewed it like a movie on fast-forward.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Kylie Baxter

    • Kylie Baxter
    • 31 January 2008

    Dr Kylie Baxter works in the National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies, Asia Institute, the University of Melbourne. She is co-author of the forthcoming US Foreign Policy in the Middle East: the rise of anti-Americanism and is currently in Beirut researching the situation of the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Howard mandarins capturing Labor ministers

    • Tony Kevin
    • 22 January 2008
    2 Comments

    Last week, Immigration Minister Senator Chris Evans paid a little-publicised visit to Jakarta for talks with ministerial counterparts on border control and people smuggling. The circumstances suggest Evans could be out of his depth, and at risk of policy capture by his department.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Trust comes at a price, but it's money well spent

    • Michael Mullins
    • 25 July 2007
    2 Comments

    Federal Water Resources Minister Malcolm Turnbull must expect to spend big in winning the trust of the recalcitrant Victorian irrigators. WIthout their hearts and minds, the Federal Government's $10.5 billion Murray-Darling rescue strategy is doomed to failure.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Empathetic and provocative parts of the sum

    • Tim Kroenert
    • 27 June 2007

    Multi-story films have a special power. They examine the lives of seemingly unrelated people whose fates become potently, albeit incidentally, connected. But sometimes a set of strong short films does not add up to a powerful feature.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Election year strategies for bleeding hearts

    • Tony Kevin
    • 05 June 2007
    3 Comments

    It is looking more and more that Labor will win, and that the present unforeseen Coalition government majority in the Senate may be lost too. There are interesting moral questions arising from this analysis for us "bleeding hearts", among whom I am happy to count myself.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Susan Aykut

    • Susan Aykut
    • 30 May 2007

    Susan Aykut is the Deputy Director of the Institute for Public History at Monash University. She completed her Ph.D. at La Trobe University in the Schools of Art History and History and has worked as an historian in a variety of positions in both the university and public sectors.  

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Dave Hoskin

    • Dave Hoskin
    • 17 May 2007

    Dave Hoskin is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and the Victorian College of the Arts. His writing has appeared in Metro and Pathway, and his short films have screened at festivals around the world.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Daniel Baldino

    • Daniel Baldino
    • 17 May 2007

    Daniel Baldino is head of the Politics/International Relations program in the School of Arts and Sciences at Notre Dame University, Fremantle.

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