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Invading Australia
- Saba Hakim, Ray Carmichael and Ouyang Yu
- 02 April 2013
1 Comment
We have wished to invade Australia like you'd never imagined from where we are based in Pakistan and Afghanistan, countries reduced by hegemony to hell. We ruled the waves till we were in sight of an island that looked from afar like a welcome entity.
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In bed with Phillip Adams
- Barry Gittins and Jen Vuk
- 08 March 2013
7 Comments
Adams once told me about his room of gods. It's chockablock with deities from myriad cultures and creeds. While Adams is revered as Godfather to Australia's atheists, at heart he remains a young boy huddled under the covers at night; buried under the considerable challenges due his story of origin.
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An infinite number of Tasmanias
- Brian Doyle
- 15 January 2013
9 Comments
If you are like me, you have on your wall a map, or perhaps several, of places you know you will never be; not in this life, anyway. It's just not going to happen. For me: Tasmania. It's as far away as you can get from where I exist.
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Best of 2012: Fear the politicians of the future
- Ellena Savage
- 11 January 2013
1 Comment
If my short tenure in university politics gave me anything, it is an appreciation for non-politicians. Not only did Barbara Ramjan's allegations against Tony Abbott not surprise me, the honest brutality of the act sounds preferable to the slow, steady harassment that sustains student politicians these days. Friday 28 September
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AUSTRALIA

Best of 2012: No lowly scapegoats in 'necessary' Royal Commission
- Moira Rayner
- 08 January 2013
14 Comments
One of the informing moments of my career as a lawyer came from the survivors of a family who disclosed that an authoritarian father had beaten and raped every one of his children — under the very eye of their mother. The Royal Commission isn't about punishing predators. It must find a way to institutionalise the right of every child to be heard. Tuesday 13 November
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Four Chinese poems
- Yang Xie and Hu Xian, translated Ouyang Yu
- 27 November 2012
2 Comments
Today I saw a rich man. I knew not what his brains and intestines were like ... Today I saw an old man, one hand holding an old bag, and the other, pressed on his upper abdomen. He looked pale, his head covered in sweat, and the corner of his mouth, it kept quivering.
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AUSTRALIA

No lowly scapegoats in 'necessary' Royal Commission
- Moira Rayner
- 13 November 2012
58 Comments
One of the informing moments of my career as a lawyer came from the survivors of a family who disclosed that an authoritarian father had beaten and raped every one of his children — under the very eye of their mother. The Royal Commission isn't about punishing predators. It must find a way to institutionalise the right of every child to be heard.
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Amish psychopaths and Gandhian action heroes
- Tim Kroenert
- 08 November 2012
1 Comment
A grief-stricken Amish man stalks and psychologically tortures the man who murdered his daughter. A Vietnamese veteran seeks vengeance on the American soldiers who slaughtered his fellow villagers. But for one alcoholic writer, the idea of absolving violence through violence jars with his pacifistic leanings.
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Political shoe (for Julia Gillard)
- P. S. Cottier
- 02 October 2012
1 Comment
Take long league strides over peasants and amazed cattle ... until the bad girl's red legs are chopped off, stumped, by the same woodcutter who freed the wolf.
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AUSTRALIA

Fear the politicians of the future
- Ellena Savage
- 28 September 2012
7 Comments
If my short tenure in university politics gave me anything, it is an appreciation for non-politicians. Not only did Barbara Ramjan's allegations against Tony Abbott not surprise me, the honest brutality of the act sounds preferable to the slow, steady harassment that sustains student politicians these days.
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Feather on the breath of god
- Mark Tredinnick
- 18 September 2012
5 Comments
You, too, despite the false witness of the mirror in your mind, are part, a very small part, of a very old music ... Poetry writes the only prayers you feel free to offer these days. It is the glint in the eye of the god you stopped believing, when she started causing you all this pain.
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Melbourne's Gen Y hollowman
- Tim Kroenert
- 16 February 2012
1 Comment
The 'quarter life crisis' is perhaps a Gen Y phenomenon where, despite a dedication to 'experience' and 'connection', one feels life is hollow. The greatest weakness of Any Questions For Ben? is that it offers pat answers to existential questions, where perhaps it should offer none.
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Keywords: Tales