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ARTS AND CULTURE

Books, screens, and holiday dreams
- Juliette Hughes
- 18 December 2024
In a year defined by uneven cultural offerings, books stood tall while cinema faltered and television treaded water. From Alexander Armstrong’s enchanting Evenfall to Patricia Briggs’ mystical Winter Lost, the literary landscape offered gems aplenty. Meanwhile, Netflix’s Mary proved a thunderous flop, and Barbie charmed in pink. Let the debates begin.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

A guitar that sings to the universe
- Warwick McFadyen
- 21 November 2024
David Gilmour’s latest album, Luck and Strange, emerges as a meditative masterpiece, steeped in themes of time, mortality, and the currents of life. With Gilmour’s unmistakable playing style, the album channels the introspection of an artist reflecting on paths taken and those left behind.
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AUSTRALIA

Sweet dreams and haunted histories
- Danielle Terceiro
- 30 October 2024
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As Halloween starts to become a staple in Australian neighbourhoods, for most people its ghosts mean little more than costumes and candy. But from haunted churches to eerie local legends, Halloween says something about us and the way we carry snatches of unresolved history.
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RELIGION

The Bishop of Rome and universal jurisdiction: An ecumenical obstacle?
- Bill Uren
- 11 July 2024
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The recent Vatican instruction terminating the celebration of the Tridentine Mass in St Patrick’s Cathedral is a prime example of Vatican officialdom overriding local episcopal authority. Let us hope that in a more decentralized Church some traditional obstacles to ecumenism may be removed without respective ecclesiastical loss of face on the part of the contributing Churches.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

John Grisham and the Camino literary caper
- Peter Craven
- 05 July 2024
For a long time now, John Grisham has been part of the air we breathe. He's one of those writers who’s all things to all people. His latest Camino books are books about books; a form of meta crime writing and you have to admire the move on the chessboard they represent. Can John Grisham be self-reflexive?
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INTERNATIONAL

Commemorate or forget: Do we care enough about D-Day?
- Geraldine Doogue
- 18 June 2024
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I wonder how many Australians were captivated, as was I, by the 80th anniversary D-Day celebrations? They seemed epochal to me: a reminder of something remarkable and a pointer to something possible, namely new resolve to maintain peace in Europe. Not too many Australians, as it turned out, were similarly mesmerised.
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AUSTRALIA

Normalising war is the road to hell
- Warwick McFadyen
- 25 April 2024
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How about truth as an antidote to war? Who would have stomach for it, though we see war as part of existence? The trouble with its normalisation, such as in games, both in backyards and in cyberspace, is that becomes uncoupled from reality.
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AUSTRALIA

The return of the native
- Gillian Bouras
- 15 February 2024
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Tolstoy once wrote that exile is a long dream of home, but the dreaming does not persist forever, so that you eventually wake to the knowledge that home exists only in your head and in your memory. Welcome home, various people have been saying, but my silent question is Where is it?
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Fargo and reconciling debt
- Michael McVeigh
- 25 January 2024
The world of Fargo, like ours, is a fallen one, and it’s clear at the end of this season that the cycle of violence will continue. But we’re also left with a strong hope that some of the characters might have found a way out of that hellish cycle of debt and restitution. And if there’s hope for them, there’s hope for us all.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Six books to read this summer
- Sarah Klenbort
- 20 December 2023
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Summer is upon us, and with it — I hope — the reading season. So here are my top reads from the last two years (and one that feels relevant from 2014). What are your recommendations for summer reads?
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ARTS AND CULTURE

A Christmas Carol and the making of a miser
- David Halliday
- 30 November 2023
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Why another Christmas Carol and why now? This version takes a detour from Dickens’ original delving deeper into Scrooge’s past, painting him not just as a villain, but as a victim of circumstances. It suggests that behind every act we hastily label as ‘cruel’ lies a story of fear and anxiety, and a flesh-and-blood human being. And forgiveness, then, becomes an acknowledgment of our shared human frailty.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Lightning Ghosts
- John Kinsella
- 25 September 2023
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I sense them in the air when it’s said there’s little or no chance of a storm — they are apostrophes to themselves, shaped like diacriticals. This is a mundane observation to offer up when the flash closes the light out —that loss of speech to pyrography.
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Keywords: Ghosts