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Keywords: Pessimism

  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Urgent matters written about in haste

    • Peter Pierce
    • 22 August 2007
    1 Comment

    Future Perfect is ABC broadcaster Robyn Williams' sketch of much that imperils the human future. Whatever flaws and fancies there may have been in God's blueprint, Williams does surprisingly little to produce projections of his own.

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  • RELIGION

    Australians quietly spiritual, not Godless

    • Paul Collins
    • 15 May 2007
    17 Comments

    In 2005, Pope Benedict targeted Australians as world leaders in Godlessness. However a recent book argues that Australian spirituality is understated, wary of enthusiasm, authority, and characterised by "a serious quiet reverence".

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Historical novels

    • Delia Falconer
    • 06 July 2006

    Are we writing too many of them? Is there a crisis of relevance in Austlit? No, argues Delia Falconer.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Cultural collapse

    • Jim Davidson
    • 31 May 2006

    Jim Davidson explores Morris Berman’s The Twilight of American Culture.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Time to make history

    • Jack Waterford
    • 30 April 2006

    Has John Howard ever been so much in charge of affairs?  He has a complete ascendency over a defeated, demoralised and directionless Opposition.

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  • RELIGION

    A new understanding

    • James McEvoy
    • 23 April 2006

    Forty years ago, Vatican II promulgated one of its last documents: the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World. Many have said that it was too optimistic about modernity.

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