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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Scenes from a taxi

    • Brian Matthews
    • 17 December 2008
    1 Comment

    I don't support the view that cab drivers are sources of homespun wisdom and arcane knowledge. Australian cabbies are an amiable, diverse lot, not given to philosophy, though I encountered one spectacular exception.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Win: Stop-Loss movie tickets

    • staff
    • 04 August 2008

    In Stop-Loss, A decorated, young soldier returns to his Texas hometown following his tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return back to duty by the Army. Eureka Street has ten double passes to give away

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The diary of clean beginnings

    • Kevin Gillam
    • 04 March 2008

    my words are miscarriages ... I keep my tongue wound in my teeth, ignore the throbbing in the gullett, but symptoms find their opening

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Hyundai man set to work magic on South Korea profile

    • Bruno de Paiva
    • 08 February 2008
    1 Comment

    South Korea's new Prime Minister Lee Myung-Bak is credited with turning a tiny fruitless company into the international household name Hyundai. Surrounded by headline-grabbing nations of Japan, China and North Korea, South Korea may be relatively unnoticed no longer.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Two people in a garage

    • Debbie Lustig
    • 13 December 2007
    1 Comment

    I nearly drowned in fulfilment, surfacing like a batfish gaping at scraps. No words only our breathing – two people in a garage. Workbenched, love-bolted.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Bob Collins, larger than life Labor minister

    • Frank Brennan
    • 25 October 2007
    6 Comments

    We come to bid farewell to Robert Lindsay Collins, the proud Territorian, the larger than life Leader of the Opposition and Labor Minister, the loving father of Robbie, Libby and Daniel, the faithful spouse of Rosemary, and raucous friend of many of us gathered here today in St Mary's Cathedral Darwin.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Rabbit proof fence not Jigalong's only barrier

    • Jack Waterford
    • 13 June 2007
    2 Comments

    Jigalong is a remote community in WA, best known for its association with the Rabbit Proof Fence. Remote Aboriginal communities suffer greatly from undeveloped nature of their economies, and the institutional barriers created to prevent them developing.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Debbie Lustig

    • Debbie Lustig
    • 17 May 2007

    Debbie contributes to Roomers Magazine. She won the 2005 Glen Eira Council Literary Festival/My Brother Jack Award for poetry.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Gold panner's large rewards from small discoveries

    • Paul Daffey
    • 11 December 2006
    1 Comment

    Max Muir, who worked on the Victorian Railways all his working life, says many railway employees have hobbies such as fishing or golf—pastimes that can be enjoyed either alone or in groups, and at odd hours if need be. In Muir’s case, he developed the hobby of panning for gold.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Everything you do has long been done before

    • Debbie Lustig
    • 04 September 2006
    2 Comments

    Everything you do has long been done before / But you and this obsession are joined at the hip / You do it anyway and you still want more  

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Taxi cab tales

    • Brian Matthews
    • 14 May 2006

    Cab cultures, not to mention the cabbies themselves, vary widely around the world. The Australian habit of hopping into the front seat with the hack and exchanging a cheery word is not generally welcome in Paris.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Boxed in

    • Brian Matthews
    • 25 April 2006

    In a life liberally studded with trips in cabs, I have found cabbies to be in general an amiable lot.

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