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Keywords: Myths

  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Teacher Man

    • Ralph Carolan
    • 29 May 2006

    Ralph Carolan reviews Frank McCourt's Teacher Man, and finds that the life of a teacher can be a sometimes solitary, sometimes Sisyphean, and sometimes satisfying job.  

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Gangsters, bishops, letters and tea pots

    • Eureka Street
    • 22 May 2006

    Terms of endearment. Smashing idea. Back in the saddle.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    The Australian wound

    • Mark Byrne
    • 18 May 2006

    Mark Byrne looks at the particular characteristics that make an Australian 'hero', and asks what it is about the interior of this country that moulds the interior of our collective suconscious in such a unique way.  

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Cut from the same cloth

    • Nicholas Gruen
    • 14 May 2006

    The lives of Ned Kelly and Oscar Wilde bear uncanny symmetries.    

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Getting to know Billy better

    • John Button
    • 14 May 2006

    John Button on Aneurin Hughes’s Billy Hughes: Prime Minister and Controversial Founding Father of  the Labor Party.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Echoes of war

    • Dawn Delaney
    • 11 May 2006

    Dawn Delaney examines the unwelcome legacy of violence against women following the conflict in East Timor.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Hidden lives

    • Kate Cherry
    • 10 May 2006

    Kate Cherry reviews Creating frames: Contemporary Indigenous Theatre by Maryrose Casey.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    In the shadows of the past

    • Anthony Ham
    • 30 April 2006

    The legacy of Franco still looms large in the Spanish imagination

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Natural talent

    • Michele Gierck
    • 30 April 2006

    Michele Gierck meets Ulli and Georgina Beier.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    The ethics and myths of stem cells

    • T.J. Martin
    • 25 April 2006

    In the flurry of media reports surrounding the stem cell debate, it can be difficult to grasp exactly what the research involves. Professor John Martin of St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research outlines the science and the ethical implications.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Oil and water

    • Richard Campbell
    • 25 April 2006

    Richard Campbell debunks the myths about global oil reserves.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    In a minor key

    • Luke Fraser
    • 25 April 2006

    Luke Fraser reviews Frontier Justice: A History of the Gulf Country to 1900, by Tony Roberts.

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