Keywords: Gillian Bouras
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 28 January 2009
5 Comments
As the bush scents drift, I
remember: the aroma of fish and chips floating
along the platforms at Flinders Street Station; the smell of dust that
heralds a storm, as moisture hits
bone-dry earth. When your life is sliced in two by migration, you do not scorn nostalgia.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 26 November 2008
6 Comments
We know it's a suffering world. Many of us plod through a vale of tears, often forgetting to count our blessings. Yet once in a while we are stopped dead in our tracks. By the human, which occasionally turns out to be the miraculous as well.
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AUSTRALIA
- Gillian Bouras
- 28 October 2008
4 Comments
The Rudd Government's rationale for cutting migration to Australia is economic, rather than humane. Migrants are forever tapping at the window of the past, unable to ever truly go home.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 06 October 2008
5 Comments
Mental illness has always been with us. Hippocrates attached melancholia to an excess of black bile. Christ cast out demons from the afflicted.
My sister suicided after years of suffering, undiagnosed because of fear of stigma.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 25 August 2008
9 Comments
Imagine the horror of a completely silent world. The deaf person requires strategies: they must make requests, or provide tactful reminders. Lip-reading is a useful skill, but beards and moustaches can provide difficulty.
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AUSTRALIA
- Gillian Bouras
- 15 August 2008
5 Comments
Politics is never far from the surface at the Olympics. Even at the so-called friendly Games in Melbourne in 1956, the famous 'Blood in the Water' water-polo match reflected tensions surrounding the Soviet invasion of Hungary ten days before.
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AUSTRALIA
- Gillian Bouras
- 01 July 2008
4 Comments
'Iguanagate' pariahs Belinda Neal and John Della Bosca can hardly be compared with Bush, Blair and Howard, but they are arguably on the same continuum. Surely the notion that leadership and responsibility go together still has some meaning.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Dimitrios Bouras
- 04 June 2008
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In Australia I had never been taunted because of my migrant
father, but after moving to Greece I was ridiculed and bullied because I was half-foreign, and because my mother was
entirely so. I began to do my best to deny her existence.
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