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Keywords: Critic

  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Jesuit critic says Da Vinci Code reveals Christians' ignorance of faith

    • Michael Mullins
    • 27 February 2007

    Fr Richard Leonard has said that The Da Vinci code's main achivement is to expose the level of ignorance among Christians about their own history and how the New Testament was compiled.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Warne's world of Hollywood and the modern Ashes

    • Binoy Kampmark
    • 22 January 2007
    3 Comments

    Whatever criticisms have been levelled against Warnie, he is seen as the reviver of cricket. For better or worse, he brought cricket up-to-speed with other sports, in terms of quality, and scandal. Whatever criticisms have been levelled against Warnie, Australians remain loyal to his superiority. Warne is seen as the reviver of cricket, bringing slow bowling back from the desert.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The oxygen that breathes life into peacemaking

    • Peter Garrett
    • 30 October 2006
    4 Comments

    Other than formal interaction between nations, the role of non-government organisations (NGOs) who provide the heavy lifting in aid relief and community building in war-torn regions is critical, as is the exercise of citizen's voices, and the involvement they have with the political processes of their country.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The place of empathy in moral judgment of Israel's war

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 04 September 2006
    2 Comments

    The judgment about what is proportionate is not a mathematical judgement, but a human one. Perhaps part of the widespread criticism of the actions of Israel, as of the United States, does not come out of disrespect for these nations, but from high expectations.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Discourse without dialogue in Australian politics

    • Tony Smith
    • 07 August 2006
    1 Comment

    Former Labor minister John Button anticipated the current low point in political discourse, with defenders and critics of government policy having lost the capacity to engage in dialogue, particularly in the field of public morality.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Feeding the habit

    • Geoffrey Milne
    • 06 July 2006

    Theatre critic Geoffrey Milne took time off this summer to write two books on Australian theatre. What has drawn him into theatres more than 100 times a year over the past three decades—as a journalist and as a theatre historian? His excuse is that his university teaching demands close acquaintance with actual performances. But that’s not the whole story.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Worth a fatwa?

    • Peter Pierce & Catherine Pierce
    • 02 July 2006

    Has Michel Houellebecq earned the criticism that has come his way?

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  • MEDIA

    United we stand

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 26 June 2006

    The recent controversy about the ABC has been studied as an exercise in politics, as a lesson in handling criticism and as an exercise in free speech. It may also be part of a larger cultural shift in the way governments see themselves in relation to the people they govern.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Could Australia become another island in the Indonesian archipelago?

    • Paul Osborne
    • 26 June 2006
    2 Comments

    Mr Howard has travelled to Indonesia to mend the rift in relations betwen the two countries. Critics of the proposed legislation designed to appease Indonesia, fear that Australia is in serious danger of surrendering its sovereignty by allowing another country to force its hand on policy matters, such as migration.

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  • RELIGION

    The pharisees

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 10 May 2006

    In the Scriptures the Pharisees get a bad press. They are accused of being legalist, obsessive about detail, hypocritical and self-serving.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The Spanish factor

    • Margaret Coffey
    • 10 May 2006

    The Hispanic population may play a critical role in the forthcoming US elections

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    True confessions

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 24 April 2006

    I just feel so guilty, being a TV critic and all, I’m supposed to have some kind of taste. But I started watching Big Brother, despite saying I wasn’t going to. And then got, well, sucked in.

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