Keywords: Juliette Hughes
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AUSTRALIA
- Juliette Hughes
- 02 November 2022
4 Comments
The town celebrated Guy Fawkes day and burned an effigy of the man who tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament centuries before. For days beforehand, even as the holy women left the churches where they had prayed for the release of souls from punishment, children would be dragging carts and prams around with Guy Fawkes dummies they’d made, stuffed with straw and newspaper like scarecrows, easy to burn.
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AUSTRALIA
- Juliette Hughes, Kathy Chambers
- 20 October 2022
10 Comments
With very little public debate or consultation, Victoria has repealed almost all laws relating to prostitution. Alone among all recreational activities, sex for payment is now unrestricted, even regarding health and safety. If we really care what happens to people, what place does sex work have in our society?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Juliette Hughes
- 07 September 2022
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So far it hasn’t been easy to find a review in Australia from someone who has actually read the sixth and latest book in Rowling/Galbraith’s Cormoran Strike crime series, The Ink Black Heart. l wonder if it is too much to ask for people to simply read books (any books) before holding opinions about them.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Juliette Hughes
- 16 August 2022
1 Comment
Five years ago, the beloved and I were in a reality show called Everyone’s a Critic. The show took us all to art galleries, mostly in Melbourne and Sydney, plonked us in front of some artworks, asking us to say what we thought of them. I realised TV norms being what they are, that we could have a ten-minute conversation about artists with whom we were familiar and all that would make it onto the program would be ten seconds of me mentioning my mum.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Juliette Hughes
- 14 July 2022
4 Comments
History is on my mind at the moment, all because of yet another awful Austen adaptation. The latest cinematic mud-pie thrown at her in the new Persuasion movie may even be the worst one yet, which is something, because there’s a lot of competition. Who can forget Gwyneth Paltrow in the 1995 Emma driving a carriage in a yellow ball gown as though she were doing the time trial in Top Gear?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Juliette Hughes
- 28 June 2022
1 Comment
How do we know that what we call knowledge is knowledge? How do we know that we know? The two books I have been reading here are both about kinds of knowing. Suzie Sheehy is a particle physicist from my old stamping ground, Melbourne University. Sheehy’s story is of passionate hunters for nothing less than the meaning of everything.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Juliette Hughes
- 28 April 2022
14 Comments
The rights and wrongs of what has happened in recent years regarding the experience and sufferings of transgender people have ended up as a polarised and difficult area of discourse, affecting women’s lives and rights far more than men’s. In the current situation, Raymond is a clear voice about the erosion of women’s rights and safety in what should be the safest, most pluralistic arena of all: academia.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Juliette Hughes
- 18 May 2007
Juliette Hughes tells it like it is (or, how it should be).
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Juliette Hughes
- 10 July 2006
New Year’s resolutions: 1. No more TV IQ tests that expose one’s innumeracies and estimate one’s intelligence at somewhere between a One Nation voter and a newt.
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AUSTRALIA
- Juliette Hughes
- 09 July 2006
Juliette Hughes interviews Dawn Cardona, principal of Darwin’s Nungalinya Theological College.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Juliette Hughes, Andrew Hamilton
- 08 July 2006
Reviews of Quarterly Essay, Groundswell: the Rise of the Greens; The Tournament; The Writer and the World and Wild Politics.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Morag Fraser, Brett Evans, Juliette Hughes, Gordon Lewis
- 08 July 2006
Reviews of the films The Quiet American; Tadpole; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; Lovely & Amazing and The Fellowship of the Ring (extended version DVD).
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