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ARTS AND CULTURE

The battle for the economy class armrest
- Brian Matthews
- 15 October 2008
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Recent events both aeronautical and financial have been enough to scare anyone off banks and aeroplanes forever. Global economic chaos is nothing compared with the trauma of being stuck next to a large person on a plane.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Terror and the terrier
- Colleen Schirmer
- 01 October 2008
1 Comment
The black and tan fox terrier bared its teeth and growled. Its milk-swollen underbelly let us know it had a litter nearby. We were at the farmhouse, revisiting the place where it had happened, to strip the events of their power.
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RELIGION

WYD hope for Third World pilgrims
- Margaret Rice
- 15 July 2008
3 Comments
When it comes to international aid, Australians pride themselves on their generosity. There is a similar dimension to events such as World Youth Day, which play a formative role in the lives of young people from developing countries.
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RELIGION

WYD blooms beneath the aphids
- Andrew Hamilton
- 11 July 2008
9 Comments
While observers remark on the superficiality of connection and meaning in Australian society, events such as World Youth Day encourage participants to be reflective. This can lead young people to larger human and civic values.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The roots of Aboriginal activism
- Brian McCoy
- 06 June 2008
2 Comments
Events such as the National Apology and the Northern Territory Intervention loom large in the collective memory. Many of the struggles faced by early 20th century activist Fred Maynard regarding the protection of Indigenous rights remain with us today.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

A brief history of the car bomb
- Gary Pearce
- 18 May 2007
A new book shows how the history of a technology can be used for exploring some of the key forces and events of an age. The future could have us all living in red zones, and subject to surveillance, police checks and suspended civil liberties.
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AUSTRALIA

Notable absence as a political tool
- Chloe Wilson
- 08 March 2007
1 Comment
The Prime Minister attended the funeral of Jake Kovco, the first Australian casualty in Iraq. However, he did not attend that of Mark Bingley, a Blackhawk captain who died whilst on duty in Fiji. Absences are not simple events. They often make political statements.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Crowded depiction of 1960s America
- Tim Kroenert
- 08 March 2007
Director Emilio Estevez has squeezed many big-name actors, and signifcant social and cultural events of 1960s USA, into his film about the assassination of popular presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Models for a good life and an honest death
- Clive O'Connell
- 16 October 2006
Historian Inga Clendinnen's reviews, childhood recollections, multi-coloured reminiscences of her working career, and informed discourse on simple events or complex ideas, are collected in a way that reveals a tempered tolerance seemingly inherited from her favourite essayist, Montaigne.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Mid-East crisis triggers 1974 memory
- Brian Matthews
- 24 July 2006
While musing on current events in Lebanon, Brian Matthews' globe of memory begins to spin back to a time and place perhaps not so different to today.
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ENVIRONMENT

Curiouser and curiouser
- Tim Thwaites
- 19 June 2006
Curiosity may have been the death of the cat, but it is the lifeblood of science. Recently Archimedes came across two delightful examples of how human the events leading to advances in scientific research can be.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Fuel to burn
- Brian Matthews
- 05 June 2006
As far as events in the Place de l’Horloge are concerned, Madame Gauguin is the one who knows all.
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Keywords: Events