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The love of a good convent
- Gerard Windsor
- 16 February 2024
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Casamari, my destination for the night, was fifteen kilometres more walking. The signs pointed off the road, but I must have missed one. By this time, I had wandered too far to simply retrace my steps. I was lost. To be on this walk is to convince you that Italy is composed entirely of mountains.
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AUSTRALIA

Lessons in disagreement
- Sam Kiss
- 12 April 2023
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With the Let Women Speak rallies over gender identity sparking violence in Australia and New Zealand, there have been renewed calls for tolerance and respectful discussion. Drawing on examples of how religious disagreements have been managed in the past, there is hope for peaceful cooperation in the face of fundamental differences.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

First trip to red earth
- Bernard Appassamy
- 18 April 2019
2 Comments
The isolation is familiar — like the Mauritius I grew up in, but these swans also capture a different Australia to the one I have known until now. What appears spectacular to a tourist travelling in an air conditioned car remains brutal for the locals, as evidenced by the drought and near ghost towns forced to reinvent themselves through tourism.
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Is Nixon the celebrity anti Trump we need?
- Saman Shad
- 27 March 2018
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When Cynthia Nixon announced she was running for governor of New York the excitement was instantaneous. Not because she was a woman, as there have been no female governors of the state, nor because she once played Miranda on Sex and the City, but because she spoke in a way that captured leftie hearts the world over.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Ode to the death of hippie idealism
- Tim Kroenert
- 19 March 2015
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In 1993 Joaquin Phoenix's brother, River, died of a drug overdose, in front of a club owned by Johnny Depp. Depp later starred in an adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's drug-addled Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, prompting one film critic to wonder how Depp could see much humour in the material. One might now be tempted to ask the same question of Phoenix, who was present during his brother's fatal overdose.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Asylum seeker karaoke
- Barry Gittins
- 20 August 2013
5 Comments
Manus Island's hot, there's no protection for the weak. Though you think you're kind, it's true asylum that I seek. What's the point of difference between the church and state? Why do Salvos validate a policy of hate? History repeats, you Aussies did the same to Jews. Running from the Nazis, with their pleas for help refused.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Ode to f***book
- Cecilia Condon
- 27 July 2010
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Your profile .. Your pics, updated .. Your 746 Friends .. Fend off the texture of the universe. F***book will f*** You.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Intimacy in same-sex friendships
- Tim Kroenert
- 04 June 2009
Peter's a sweetie with the ladies, but never got his head around the whole male bonding thing. So he sets out on a series of man-dates, with the aim of finding a friend. His first attempts are spectacular failures. And then he meets Sydney.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Film reviews
- Annelise Balsamo, Gordon Lewis, Juliette Hughes
- 24 June 2006
Reviews of the films Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle; Autofocus; Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and A Mighty Wind.
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AUSTRALIA

Cut from the same cloth
- Nicholas Gruen
- 14 May 2006
The lives of Ned Kelly and Oscar Wilde bear uncanny symmetries.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Film reviews
- Siobhan Jackson, Allan James Thomas
- 25 April 2006
Reviews of the films The Assassination of Richard Nixon, 2046 and Ae Fond Kiss.
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