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Keywords: Bubble

ARTS AND CULTURE

On becoming a housewife for the first time
- Lisa Brockwell
- 25 February 2014
13 Comments
I find myself on tuckshop duty with my dearest friend; we didn't see this coming at university. I learn more than any woman like me needs to know about slashing paddocks. I visit the vet at least once a week. I picture my husband dying in a car crash; this dark bubble rises out of the mud of me much too frequently. Shouting at my five year old, I can't believe it is up to me to keep this baby alive when I am all naked flailing heart.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Best of 2013: Politicising the bimbo
- Ellena Savage
- 13 January 2014
2 Comments
The pleasure of not affecting one's native mode of speech to appease a kind of person who means to privilege the privileged, is unparalleled. Try speaking in a playful way to someone who's scared of bimbos, and then watch their brains literally explode. When a listener struggles to understand that when I say I 'literally died', and yet clearly am still alive, that I am using language in a playful and even ironic way, it's not really their fault.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Politicising the bimbo
- Ellena Savage
- 27 September 2013
6 Comments
The pleasure of not affecting one's native mode of speech to appease a kind of person who means to privilege the privileged, is unparalleled. Try speaking in a playful way to someone who's scared of bimbos, and then watch their brains literally explode. When a listener struggles to understand that when I say I 'literally died', and yet clearly am still alive, that I am using language in a playful and even ironic way, it's not really their fault.
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AUSTRALIA

Don't stoop to stupid policy over boat tragedy
- Aloysious Mowe
- 20 December 2011
10 Comments
Of course we want people to stop making the hazardous boat journey to Christmas Island, but tow-backs and off-shore processing are immoral and stupid. Australia must engage with others in the region to find ways to ensure people are not driven to make desperate journeys.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

No place to talk about death
- Warrick Wynne
- 26 July 2011
2 Comments
The light is falling away with the tide, but the dark shapes are birds going somewhere. the bubbles in the sand small breaths rising into the air ...
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Mothers, soldiers and other entrepreneurs
- Brian Doyle
- 04 May 2011
3 Comments
To attempt, to begin, is really to dream, to envision, to speculate, and then to work like a burro to implement, to create, to make real. How is it that a word like entrepreneurship, which means vast and amazing things, has become so commonplace and thin?
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RELIGION

Is New Zealand a Christian country?
- Peter Matheson
- 13 June 2007
The question of whether New Zealand should see itself as a Christian country has bubbled up in an unexpected way. The word ‘Christian’, itself, has become, almost unusable, associated in the public mind with fundamentalist bookshops and the like, or with short lived political parties which tout moralistic codes.
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