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ARTS AND CULTURE

Bothersome buskers and Twitter twits
- Brian Matthews
- 17 February 2011
3 Comments
Like tweeters, buskers can command a certain amount of attention. They can sing in tune or flat, hit the note or miss it, just as bloggers can turn a stylish paragraph or churn out self regarding rubbish, and tweeters can report every breath they draw.
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AUSTRALIA

Rudd the Terminator
- Michael Mullins
- 03 May 2010
19 Comments
Increasing the cost of cigarettes hurts the poor more than the rich. Kevin Rudd is acting with the callous efficiency of The Terminator when he really needs to find a more equitable incentive to give up smoking.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Imelda Marcos the Musical
- Tim Kroenert
- 15 April 2010
'Like most politicians, she was driven by psychological angels and demons', writes musician David Byrne of Imelda Marcos, the former first lady ofthe Philippines. Byrne has written a 'musical' about Marcos' life. From the outset, he risks deifying a monster.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Guttered brotherhood
- B. N. Oakman
- 08 December 2009
1 Comment
Our town nuisance, eyes bulging from a hollowed head, trousers like tattered flags half-mast on broomstick legs, a pest to the tourists ... a handy arrest for the police
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ENVIRONMENT

The perverse skills of climate change deniers
- Charles Rue
- 30 November 2009
46 Comments
Climate sceptics use proven lobbying techniques to confuse people and delay political action. That Cardinal George Pell allows himself to be aligned with them compromises the credibility of church mission to serve humanity.
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AUSTRALIA

Homeless people are not toilets
- Frank Bowden
- 13 July 2009
9 Comments
What we call people can determine the way we treat them. At one hospital in the 1980s, the rank odour of urine, tobacco and grime that characterised some homeless patients led to them being referred to as 'dunnies'.
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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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ECONOMICS

It's time to ditch GDP
- John Wicks
- 23 September 2008
9 Comments
The 'trickle down' of wealth proclaimed by neo-liberalism is debatable, and hardships flowing from sub-prime activities descend on the disadvantaged with the finesse of a freight train. Some economists have demanded the GDP measure be replaced by goods and services data that promote the common good.
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AUSTRALIA

Only higher prices will cure fuel addiction
- Michael Mullins
- 02 June 2008
12 Comments
Both the Federal Government and Opposition have proposed easing the pain of ballooning petrol prices with flat tax reductions. However they would be doing us more of a favour if they treated oil dependency as an addiction, and imposed extra taxes that would further increase the price of petrol.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Smooth ethical edges give way to corruption
- Moira Rayner
- 16 April 2008
2 Comments
Having a conflict of interest is not, in itself, wrong — it is the potential for wrongdoing and corruption that must be avoided. We are not very good at this in Australia. From July-August 2003
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Cousin Betty, the asylum and the EJ Holden
- Roger Trowbridge
- 05 September 2007
1 Comment
The old EJ was a last link to Betty. It was her pride and joy. She’d wash and polish it with the care most people reserved for their children. Betty had none. She was a "spinster".
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RELIGION

In praise of hypocrisy
- Andrew Hamilton
- 15 May 2007
2 Comments
Symbolic gestures, whether at personal or at national level, are effective, even though they will have a barely measurable effect on water supply or global warming. Our world becomes different, and our sense of what has priority in it also changes.
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Keywords: Tobacco