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ARTS AND CULTURE

Gloves off for climate crunch
- John Wicks
- 18 September 2009
6 Comments
Some will be concerned by the black and white treatment of climate change in Tony Kevin's book. There is common ground now to generate significant policy changes with a focus on wellbeing, even while the CO2 debate continues to rage.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Economists and other prophets
- Brian Matthews
- 12 August 2009
3 Comments
Economists are often, sometimes spectacularly, wrong. But like all prophets, they are unabashed by and unpunished for abject failures. They pop up from each new set of ruins, surprised yet unrepentant, princes of a plethora of evanescent predictions.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Shakespeare and the F word
- Brian Matthews
- 13 May 2009
If Shakespeare had dabbled in cuisine, dishes such as 'eye of newt' and 'fillet of fenny snake' may have been a sensation. As the first 'foody' to emerge from the obscurity of Stratford-upon-Avon, he would have an unlikely successor: Gordon Ramsay.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The human face of a 'metaphorical' poet
- Garry Kinnane
- 04 March 2009
6 Comments
In 1972 Auden abandoned New York to live at Christ Church College, Oxford. He was given a cottage in the grounds, and was expected to give occasional talks and be available to students. It turned out not to be the success everyone had hoped for.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Confessions of a rogue library book buyer
- Malcolm King
- 13 January 2009
Even though the university was now in phase seven of its Orwellian audit on 'where money was coming from and where it was going', they still had not yet twigged that there was a cell of book buying anarchists wearing sensible shoes in their midst. (February 2008)
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Secret life of a bullied writer
- Andrew Hamilton
- 05 December 2008
4 Comments
If Manning Clark was oversensitive to criticism, he was also strongly, sometimes brutally, criticised by his peers and by journalists. Matthews' biography presents the relationship between Clark's writing and his dramatic inner world.
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MEDIA

The unreal news in detail about Britt Lapthorne
- Jill Sutton
- 29 October 2008
16 Comments
The sacking of Croation police chief Ivan Kresicin has seen Britt Lapthorne returned to newspaper headlines once again. Despite our burgeoning information technology, we are still putty in the hands of those who give us the details they choose about what is happening in the world.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Unlikely (big) brothers in arms
- Alexandra Coghlan
- 19 September 2008
1 Comment
George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh occupied opposing aesthetic, philosophical and political poles. This conceptually agile book suggests they attained moral — if not spiritual — agreement from fundamentally opposing directions.
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AUSTRALIA

'Bumbling' Karadzic faces political justice
- Binoy Kampmark
- 24 July 2008
One of the vices of nationalism is the symptom of long memory. Punishing accused war criminal Radovan Karadzic will do little to convince those who are set in their positions — Bosnia's Muslims will feel vindicated, but Bosnian Serbs are simply weary.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Chris Johnston cartoon archive
- Chris Johnston
- 12 September 2007
An archive of Chris Johnston's cartoons.
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ENVIRONMENT

'Don't be evil' a struggle for Google
- James Massola
- 05 September 2007
5 Comments
Channel 7's purchase of AFL players' medical records has highlighted privacy concerns. Most users of Google are not aware of the extent to which it compromises their privacy.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Aloofness the price for master critic's knowledge and incisiveness
- Clive O'Connell
- 13 June 2007
2003 Nobel Literature prizewinner and Adelaide research fellow J.M. Coetzee, offers even-handed judgements about arcane authors. He assesses their work with an understanding assurance that abstains from proclaiming genius where there is only fitful talent.
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Keywords: Orwell