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Keywords: Ts Eliot

ENVIRONMENT

Tony Burke versus the invisible worm
- Barry Breen
- 10 April 2013
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If poetry is the pulse of our cultural life, so too can it be seen as the pulse of our public decisions. Our poetry loving Minister for the Environment may find wisdom in the words of some of his favourite poets when it comes to decisions about the Murray Darling basin, Tarkine wilderness and Great Barrier Reef.
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ENVIRONMENT

Climate change and Australia's weather on steroids
- Paul Collins
- 04 February 2013
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Foreign Minister Bob Carr has said that, coming from Australia where climate change denial 'fills the air', he finds it significant that world leaders see climate change as the world's most important concern, even more than the economy. Recent extreme weather events, including the floods in Queensland, are symptoms of long-term climate change.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Last of the cat poems
- Karl Cameron-Jackson and Mike Hopkins
- 06 March 2012
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With fresh blood in your mouth you are no longer cat, house-trained to please. Now you kill wantonly, revel in the fear you invoke in others. Man was created, just like you, to run free in the killing-fields ... Is this what God meant you to be? To revert to what you once were?
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Joe Bageant's option for the hillbillies
- Michael Loughnane
- 12 April 2011
6 Comments
‘I don’t like middle class people very much,’ said Joe Bageant in an interview for the documentary Deer Hunting with Jesus. Bageant championed the cause of the ‘white redneck’, a social group he saw as being one of the most marginalised and disenfranchised in America.
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EDUCATION

Taking maths out of the equation
- Frank O'Shea
- 02 February 2009
11 Comments
These are earnest kids, wanting to succeed. Society has told them that to succeed they must be able to draw a parabola, find the vertex, state the axis of symmetry. This city has two million adults — how many ever heard of an axis of symmetry?
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ARTS AND CULTURE

All that jazz
- Grant Fraser
- 24 January 2009
To an outsider jazz might seem a mysterious, prowling place because it defies simple definition. This is a journal for slow reading, recommend to those who are not jazz devotees and do not prowl ... yet.
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RELIGION

21st century moral education leaves Simpson's donkey behind
- Frank Brennan
- 25 October 2007
Many Australians have reservations about a government poster espousing such values with a quote from an English novelist, George Eliot, proclaiming "Character is Destiny". Others wonder about Simpson's Donkey as the emblematic carrier of these values. But how do schools train their students to be moral agents in the 21st century.
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RELIGION

Why militant anti-theism is a God-send
- Scott Stephens
- 18 May 2007
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The term “atheist” seems too respectable for the position occupied by commentators such as Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins. They are anti-theists, opposed in principle to every last attachment to the divine, leading many to accuse them of a kind of inverted fundamentalism that lacks the core modern virtue of tolerance or respect for others.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Keneally's mature insights into character
- Tony Smith
- 15 May 2007
To the extent that novels exist to provide insights into character, minds and decisions, Tom Keneally's new novel is arguably his best.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Historical novels
- Delia Falconer
- 06 July 2006
Are we writing too many of them? Is there a crisis of relevance in Austlit? No, argues Delia Falconer.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Lessons learned from Icarus
- Brian Matthews
- 26 June 2006
There’s a lot of reality around at the moment – at Guantanamo, in Baghdad, in East Timor, in Australian workplaces. To be fully human, we must observe, take account of, and if possible influence these realities as best we can; at the same time life, ordinary quotidian life, must go on.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Quick reviews
- Emily Millane, Ali Lemer, Joel Townsend
- 23 April 2006
Reviews of the books Snowy River Story: The Grassroots Campaign to Save a National Icon; Yarra: A Diverting History of Melbourne’s Murky River; and A Short History of Myth.
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Keywords: Ts Eliot