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Keywords: William Buckley

  • AUSTRALIA

    Ghost of weddings past, present and future

    • Brian Matthews
    • 06 December 2013
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    Is there a spirit of place, a kind of psychological imprint that endows a particular location? There are spots along the Coorong in South Australia where, as twilight deepens, you could swear that wraith-like, dark figures are moving through the dunes. Recent events made me wonder if the legendary William Buckley lives on in that way on Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula, where he lived for 32 years among the local Wataurong people.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Peter Steele's hymns in sickness

    • Andrew Bullen
    • 14 June 2012
    8 Comments

    'Monday is Day Oncology, where the dark burses arrive by courier, and we're glad to see them stripped for action, hooked in the air, lucent against fear.' Maybe only Steele could see these bags of chemo as Christological signs. As with the zoo once, so now the oncology ward offers hints of that other eden.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The shores of the past

    • Jane Mayo Carolan
    • 29 April 2006

    Jane Carolan enjoys an encounter with Barry Hill in The Enduring Rip: A History of Queenscliffe.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    An activist for the faithful

    • Bruce Duncan
    • 25 April 2006
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    Tom Butler (1915–2005): lawyer, editor of the Catholic Worker newspaper

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