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Keywords: Trains

ARTS AND CULTURE

City rush hour adventures
- Peter Bakowski
- 20 November 2012
3 Comments
What a gift is hunger. Because of it your ancestors left their caves, explored plains, valleys, rivers, seas. Their adventures became stories, paintings, songs. There's the story of each person, on the trains, trams, street corners. How vulnerable you are, how strong you are.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

God gathers dust
- Peter Gebhardt
- 29 May 2012
3 Comments
Never hoards it, for he has new urns to make, for us to admire and, sometimes, to love.
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AUSTRALIA

Raising boys who play with dolls
- Catherine Marshall
- 10 April 2012
14 Comments
For every girl who feels she is being forced to choose between a thousand shades of pink, there's a boy hemmed in by society's expectations of what a boy should be. Female empowerment will lose its value unless women take men on the journey with them.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Dreams of pulling Australia out of its slump
- Ian C. Smith
- 31 January 2012
Although most are probably long dead, they seem happy, even excited. Perhaps they will toss triumphant hats. The wind might favour their team, even steal tossed hats, but not hope.
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ENVIRONMENT

Save the world with salad
- Ruby Hamad
- 09 December 2011
26 Comments
As a subject that inflames passion on both sides of the debate, meat eating is up there with abortion and religion. Yet animal agriculture is responsible for a quarter of all emissions. Labor's carbon price is unlikely to produce significant results while animal farmers are exempt.
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AUSTRALIA

Mainstreaming evil
- Michael Loughnane
- 11 November 2011
20 Comments
Journalist Hannah Arendt noted that Nazi 'desk-murderer' Adolf Eichmann did not lack a moral compass — his conscience simply spoke with the 'respectable voice' of society. The case raises questions about whether we might be 'silent witnesses to evil deeds' in our society today.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Boat people poems
- Michael Sharkey and Barry Gittins
- 19 July 2011
Bought after the wreckage of a shoaled first marriage, the becalmed, calming painting survived a bachelor's anchorage, flotsam and jetsam, to find love. Peace. Safe, prized harbour under muted tiles and a stultifying light orb.
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EUREKA STREET TV

Denouncing bad religion
- Peter Kirkwood
- 01 July 2011
6 Comments
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EUREKA STREET TV

Denouncing bad religion
- Peter Kirkwood
- 01 July 2011
3 Comments
The saturation coverage of the assassination of Osama bin Laden helped the cause of anti-religionists such as the New Atheists, who make blanket denunciations of religion. Theologian Peter Vardy says it’s not enough for believers to shine the light on good religion. They must denounce bad religion as well.
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AUSTRALIA

Diary from the eye of the flood
- Susan Prior
- 17 January 2011
12 Comments
According to predictions based on earlier floods the ground floor of my house was was going to be inundated, so all our worldies were brought upstairs. We waited. It rained. Then on Tuesday morning something interesting started to happen.
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ENVIRONMENT

Environmental road kill on the highway to Perth
- H. A. Willis
- 08 December 2010
4 Comments
Like most small settlements along major highways, Eneabba is now bypassed, and reached via a side road. The company responsible for what will be one of Australia's dirtiest coal-fired power stations insists that 'prevailing winds will favour non-populated areas to the east and west'.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Art by and for the lost
- George Estreich
- 01 December 2010
2 Comments
The word graffiti encloses a vast spectrum from vandalism to art. At one end, a black slosh across a dry-cleaner's window: no message, only a mess. At the other, a Martian-green man on the side of a defunct warehouse, brooding on a thought as immense as himself.
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