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Moral test of a strained marriage
- Tim Kroenert
- 04 November 2009
6 Comments
A married couple is presented with a choice. If they press the button, it will cause someone they do not and will never know to die. In exchange, they will receive $1 million. Initially, The Box seems to live up to the promise of this morally charged premise.
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Harry Potter and other killer serials
- Brian Doyle
- 21 October 2009
6 Comments
From Pullman's His Dark Materials and Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings to Lewis' Narnia novels or the tale of Mr H. Potter, the series is often where young readers enter the seething and delightful universe of books, in a way that sets them up for life as readers.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Good habits of an activist nun
- Tim Kroenert
- 11 June 2009
2 Comments
Sister Carmel Wauchope is a Sister of the Good Samaritan and lives up to that name. Outraged by the conditions faced by asylum seekers in detention in Australia, she has spent years visiting detainees and advocating on their behalf.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Cinema: the secular temple
- Barbara Creed and Richard Leonard
- 18 March 2009
3 Comments
People have stopped going to church, but they still have an eye for and an expectation of the mystical. At the cinema, spectators, primed by the structures of the cinema itself, enter into a mystical experience with the shadow world being played out before them.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

China, with apologies to Ginsberg
- Andrew Burke
- 04 November 2008
3 Comments
too much America is not good for you ... Follow your own Confucius-Marx mix ... Let them learn Mandarin, China — you have enough people to swing it.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Eight months on, still sorry
- Deborah Ruiz Wall
- 14 October 2008
3 Comments
and so it was, in Canberra .. alongside screens from across the globe .. where many eyes focused on this fateful day to witness .. a new national leader seize the first opportunity .. to begin his regime with one word
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Mistakes make catchy riffs
- Kevin Gillam
- 19 August 2008
I bend the truth 'til it forms a circle .. I write with singular purpose, like a snail crossing lawn .. at night, I write in think, like balloons .. released in sunlight
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Spanish chiller evokes ghosts of grief
- Tim Kroenert
- 29 May 2008
The supernatural elements in The Orphanage provide an allegory for Laura's grief for her lost son. But it's the tangible, human elements that will leave both mind and gut churning late into the night. Be prepared to lose sleep.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Baptism by fire
- Brett McBean
- 07 May 2008
3 Comments
You're in a forest somewhere, lying facedown in a box. With a jolt, the box starts to move; a gradual ascent, like a roller coaster beginning its climb to the top of the rise. You feel as though you haven't really lived your life, merely viewed it like a movie on fast-forward.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Mutual charities between saints and beasts
- Peter Steele
- 01 April 2008
1 Comment
Did Colman's mouse, nibbling his ear, provoke him.. indeed to worship?
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AUSTRALIA

South Africa buys Mugabe's 'them and us' ruse
- Peter Roebuck
- 22 August 2007
8 Comments
South Africa is determined to resist calls to boycott its cricket tour of Zimbabwe. Mugabe's turning the slaughter and starvation over which he has so blithely presided into a " them and us" confrontation has paid dividends.
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'History wars' propel local yarns into big picture
- Susan Aykut
- 13 June 2007
Organisations that commission the writing of their history know that they must speak to their own people. But they should also engage with big picture debates that put people's stories into a larger context.
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