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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Returning to place

    • Daniel Donahoo
    • 14 May 2006

    Daniel Donahoo examines the experiences of an expat in Peter Conrad’s Tales of Two Hemispheres.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Debates and discourses

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 14 May 2006

    In our house, we’ll continue to tolerate each other’s programs up to the point of nausea or embarrassment. We’ll be able to watch the animal documentaries, Media Watch, and Roy and H. G.’s new Memphis Trousers Half Hour.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Peter Pierce, Andrew Hamilton, Jennifer Moran, Robert Hefner
    • 14 May 2006

    Reviews of  Carry  Me Down, Great Australian Racing  Stories, The Story of Christianity  and Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Taxi cab tales

    • Brian Matthews
    • 14 May 2006

    Cab cultures, not to mention the cabbies themselves, vary widely around the world. The Australian habit of hopping into the front seat with the hack and exchanging a cheery word is not generally welcome in Paris.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The pilgrim’s way

    • Anthony Ham
    • 14 May 2006

    Anthony Ham follows the historical footsteps toward Mecca.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Nathan Kensey, Daniel Marti, Aaron Martin, Beth Doherty
    • 14 May 2006

    Reviews of the books: Who did this to our Bali?; Off Course: From Public Place to Marketplace at Melbourne University; Dark Dreams, Australian refugee stories by young writers; A history of the devil:  From the Middle Ages to the present.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    On taking to the bed

    • Brian Doyle
    • 11 May 2006
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    Refuge, retreat and redemption

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Luke O’Callaghan, John Molloy, Nathan Kensey, Rachel Hewitt
    • 11 May 2006

    Reviews of the books: A man after his own heart; The Master; Car wars: How the car won our hearts and conquered our cities; and Travellers’ Tales.  

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Bush tales

    • Brian Matthews
    • 10 May 2006

    David is making mud bricks. A small, young wallaby watches him from less than five metres away.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Fish tales

    • Jane Mayo Carolan
    • 10 May 2006

    Jane Mayo Carolan goes Down to the sea: The true saga of an Australian fishing dynasty with John Little.

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  • RELIGION

    Human dignity and democracy

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 30 April 2006

    Cardinal George Pell recently spoke to the Acton Society on the limits of liberal democracy.

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  • MEDIA

    Tales of life, not death

    • Nigel Starck
    • 30 April 2006

    Obituaries provide a window on the lives of those great and small

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