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Dead father's voice comes home
- Peter Gebhardt
- 09 October 2012
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'Coming up to Canberra was the worst. We came through some pretty atrocious thunderstorm weather ... It really is a delightful aircraft to fly even in those conditions.' Voice of Stuart Graham Pearce, killed as a test pilot in 1976, as heard by his son Guy 36 years later.
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Feather on the breath of god
- Mark Tredinnick
- 18 September 2012
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You, too, despite the false witness of the mirror in your mind, are part, a very small part, of a very old music ... Poetry writes the only prayers you feel free to offer these days. It is the glint in the eye of the god you stopped believing, when she started causing you all this pain.
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Autumn on Australia Street
- Brenda Saunders
- 22 May 2012
2 Comments
I know it's autumn when exotic imports lose their cargo of leaves. Empty branches startle the sky, northern cut-outs curling in the sun catch on fence wire at the school, flooding gutters after rain.
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Receiving a past
- Anne Elvey
- 24 January 2012
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From the glistening trees the chorus of what was said became me, before I registered the sacrifice. Now from the yes, a small face looks up mute. My eyes are still selfish and my ears hunt a magpie's repertoire. She spills it on the blue page.
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AUSTRALIA

The dark heart of a European Christmas
- Bronwyn Lay
- 12 December 2011
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The EU was a panacea for Europe's nationalist and imperial history. All hope was pinned on the euro as the saviour able to transcend internal differences. As Christmas approaches, the air feels fragile. Winter will be frugal. Death and disintegration are constantly on the European mind.
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You are not alone
- Shane McCauley
- 18 October 2011
2 Comments
Mist moves here, cloaking statues, mild giants that haunt and wait... the slave breathes towardhis freedom.
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Spider monk
- Grant Fraser
- 30 August 2011
2 Comments
Now he is pursed within the curl of his leaf, a monk at watch for those lost souls, whom he might trap in the sneer of his silken intentions.
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Coastal communion
- Gregory Day
- 01 June 2011
6 Comments
In the tiny church built of ecumenical brick, with barely any aesthetic pleasure to distract from the humility of the message, Patrick and his cohort in both the earlier football match and in the communion to come, sat quietly, though with the telltale legs of novices swinging restlessly under the front pew.
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AUSTRALIA

Schooling in the classroom without walls
- Catherine Marshall
- 31 January 2011
13 Comments
The furore that erupted when Chinese-American mother Amy Chua accused Westerners of being too soft on their children masks a subtle sharpening of middle class parental expectations in Australia.
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Charlie Darwin
- Various
- 20 July 2010
Definitely simian features beneath those whiskers ... definitely a great big hairy chest .. Beneath that stiff Victorian coat.
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Quasimodo comes to Woolies
- Brian Matthews
- 16 June 2010
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He was horribly contorted. His head was bent over his right shoulder as if being crushed down. The angle of the head concealed the right ear and enforced a distortion of his mouth and right eye. You don't stare at such afflicted people so I gazed elsewhere until he was on the move.
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How not to make a toast
- Brian Doyle
- 23 September 2009
My mother-in-law stood up on the night before her daughter married me, held her glass aloft, and sighed, 'Let's just hope this one comes off'. Some of the best toasts I ever heard were from children: 'Here's to all mum's husbands past and present!' said one girl, aged 11.
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Keywords: Autumn