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Alexei Navalny: Patriot and holy fool
- Danielle Terceiro
- 12 December 2024
Navalny’s memoir Patriot was released last month. Written in prison, it is a testament to Navalny’s deliberate practice of a forward-looking hope for the future, even though he was certain that he would not outlive his sentences. Surprisingly, the book is full of humour.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Best of 2023: In conversation with Helen Garner
- Paul Mitchell
- 04 January 2024
Arguably Australia’s most celebrated living author, Helen Garner has built a reputation as a fearless and unapologetic writer whose work has remained fresh and relevant for over 45 years. We sat down with Helen to explore the challenges of confessional non-fiction, her fondness for church, and her commitment to unsparing self-analysis.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

In conversation with Helen Garner
- Paul Mitchell
- 17 February 2023
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Arguably Australia’s most celebrated living author, Helen Garner has built a reputation as a fearless and unapologetic writer whose work has remained fresh and relevant for over 45 years. We sat down with Helen to explore the challenges of confessional non-fiction, her fondness for church, and her commitment to unsparing self-analysis.
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INTERNATIONAL

Holy fools and flawed titans: The legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev
- Binoy Kampmark
- 08 September 2022
3 Comments
Greatness for the Soviet Union’s last leader, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, was not to be found at home. Commentary on his passing is as much a statement of positions, endorsed by admiring beneficiaries, and loathed by those who fell off the train of history. The millions who delighted seeing the collapse of the Soviet Union and, as a result, a power vacuum and weaker Russia, toast him, eyes filled with emotion.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Television, radio, pancakes and God
- Isabella Fels
- 24 October 2017
1 Comment
Looking at this television certainly gives me a view of life.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

New Year at the Killing Fields
- Tony Page
- 29 April 2014
1 Comment
The children go holiday wild, swarms of them drenching us with holy water. Skin soaked, we fall off our bikes, flattened by their rabble-roused blessing ... Inside it's a garden, well-kept trails between the mounds, fooling us they were designed to please the eye ... Look, that tree, so graceful — against which babies' heads were bashed ... I check for red-handed stains but they have long since dissolved into complicity.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Punk's holy fools still putting it to Putin
- Barry Gittins and Jen Vuk
- 11 April 2014
Journalist Masha Gessen describes the members of Pussy Riot as 'Putin's ideal enemies'. In recent months, their nemesis has hosted the Olympics, taken control of Crimea and clamped down on media. For a group born out of 'the repressions of a corporate political system that directs its power against basic human rights', Pussy Riot still has much to roar about, even if its signature 'punk prayer' sounds more than ever like a plea.
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RELIGION

Politics played as holy comedy in Cambodia
- Andrew Hamilton
- 07 June 2012
5 Comments
Meetings between holiness and politics are inherently dramatic. Think of Jesus' trial, of A'Beckett's murder, of Luther at Worms, of Romero's last sermon. These were tragedies. In Fr Pierre Ceyrac, a French Jesuit priest who died last week, politics and holiness met dramatically, but as comedy.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Homeless Grace
- Brian Doyle
- 02 August 2011
7 Comments
She lived in an alcove outside Saint Brigid's Church. She had been an artist. She drank. She married a man who slept on the avenue, not near the church; he didn't like the church, said it talked to him at night in a stern rumble. He beat her. Her name was Grace.
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Best of 2009: John Safran the holy fool
- Peter Kirkwood
- 15 January 2010
1 Comment
Safran's stunts — such as hoodwinking a Palestinian sperm bank into donating Palestinian sperm to the Israelis, and vice versa — are cringe-making. But they are in the context of a cogent and pithy argument that has serious intent. October 2009
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John Safran the holy fool
- Peter Kirkwood
- 23 October 2009
4 Comments
Safran's stunts — such as hoodwinking a Palestinian sperm bank into donating Palestinian sperm to the Israelis, and vice versa — are cringe-making. But they are in the context of a cogent and pithy argument that has serious intent.
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AUSTRALIA

When kindness takes over from love
- Jennifer Sinclair
- 07 August 2006
1 Comment
Harold is Jennifer's father. Over the last few years, he had gradually transformed from husband to carer. He tended to his wife's ever increasing physical needs 24 hours a day until, at 78, he could cope no longer with neither the physical demands nor the emotional assault.
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Keywords: Holy Fool