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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ian Woolverton
- 09 April 2008
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Apnalaya, a Mumbai-based non government organisation that works with slum dwellers, commissioned Melbourne photographer Ian Woolverton to create a photo essay of scenes from Mumbai. Eureka Street presents a selection of images from this powerful essay.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 08 April 2008
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Symbolic gestures such as the apology to the Stolen Generations are often seen as a substitute for practical action. But sentiment provides important pathways into understanding the human impact of government policy-making.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 06 March 2008
The Black Balloon's early '90s suburban locale is a tangible and familiar environment,
where intolerance and ignorance brood beneath the surface. Lead actor Rhys Wakefield embodies everything that it is to be a teenager on the brink
of adulthood.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 05 March 2008
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Brakes are useful when riding down a mountain at dusk, but they are not to be taken for granted. The god of cyclists gives and takes away, and punishes and rewards. Eureka Street June-July 1994
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AUSTRALIA
The outbreak of violence in East Timor April 2006 showed that the UN had not reached first base in its efforts to lay the foundation for a small but robust nation. Now the Rudd Government has provided a template that may be of significant use to those involved with nation building in East Timor.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 13 December 2007
In the world of popular music, the transition from intimate theatre or festival gigs, to stadium rock shows, indicates the move from an authentic emphasis on great music, to 'music as spectacle', or pure commerce. It appears Missy Higgins has reached this point.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 13 December 2007
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Maxine McKew knows that the best TV and radio interviewers are those with the greatest ability to listen to their guest. Listening was her winning strategy against the former prime minister in Bennelong.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tim Kroenert
- 12 December 2007
Live Earth had united popular musicians around the world for a series of concerts highlighting climate change. In an oblivious act of irony they had contributed, on several levels, to the very problem they were trying to confront.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 31 October 2007
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The Chaser's 'Eulogy' was less about the celebrities whose deaths it celebrated, than it was about public perceptions of those celebrities. The desire to puncture the 'cult of celebrity' is a major plank in the Chaser's War.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 22 August 2007
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For most Australians, endearing naughtiness was the beginning an end of the Kevin Rudd sex club story. What was sadly overlooked was the de facto promotion of the sex industry, and implicit toleration of the damage it does to human dignity and the long struggle to ensure that women are not looked upon as sex objects.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 27 June 2007
See Judge Act forms the template of a strand of Catholic social activism. Brendan Keilar, the Melbourne good Samaritan who was fatally shot this month, did exactly this, in very fast motion.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 13 June 2007
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Rural landowners are planning a day of "civil obedience" on 1 July to assert what they believe is their right to clear native vegetation from their land. How is this different from the civil disobedience of anti-war protestors such as the Pine Gap Four?
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