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Disclaimer in a streamer world
- Peter Craven
- 15 November 2024
Starring Cate Blanchett at the height of her powers, Disclaimer, the new streamer by Alfonso Cuarón, has already been dubbed the finest thing ever made for the new television, with the director claiming not to have made a serial, but a continuous film.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

What's the deal with Unfrosted?
- David Halliday
- 14 May 2024
Jerry Seinfeld makes his directorial debut Unfrosted, a gleefully silly family comedy about the invention of the Pop-Tart. But the problem with this film is whether the sheer weight of comedic talent involved translates to actual laughs. Packed with countless cereal-based gags, it raises the question: Are disposable, pointless things worth anything?
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AUSTRALIA

Best of 2023: Bringing the country with us
- Frank Brennan
- 04 January 2024
As Australia approaches a pivotal referendum, voters face a critical choice: endorse a new chapter in the Constitution providing a 'First Nations Voice' or leave it untouched. Whichever way the vote goes, we will be left with a Constitution not fit for purpose in the 21st century.
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AUSTRALIA

The Voice referendum: Bringing the country with us
- Frank Brennan
- 01 September 2023
14 Comments
As Australia approaches a pivotal referendum, voters face a critical choice: endorse a new chapter in the Constitution providing a 'First Nations Voice' or leave it untouched. Whichever way the vote goes, we will be left with a Constitution not fit for purpose in the 21st century.
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RELIGION

The past, present and future of the Easter Rising 1916
- Frank Brennan
- 02 May 2016
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Quietly uncovering a Church scandal
- Jim McDermott
- 28 January 2016
4 Comments
Not long ago a priest visiting from abroad told me that the story of Spotlight doesn't really apply to his country. 'We don't have that problem here.' It's a comment you get somewhat regularly from some parts of the world. Would that it could only be true. Without a much greater willingness on the part of the institutional Church to let itself be broken and changed by what we have learned since January of 2002, it's more likely a sign of disasters still to come.
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ECONOMICS

Gloomy forecast for Aboriginal super
- David James
- 12 December 2012
6 Comments
Superannuation is not generally available before the age of 55. For most of the population of Australia this is scarcely a problem, as they are likely to live well into their 80s. But the average life span of Aboriginal Australians is much lower. Many will not live long enough to derive financial advantage from their super.
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INFORMATION

Latin Mass correction
- James McCarthy
- 10 September 2009
1 Comment
Andrew Hamilton's article 'Disunity in the Year of the Priest' alleges that three unnamed priests of the Sydney Archdiocese said their first Mass in Latin. Fr Hamilton clarifies his point and accepts responsibility for a factual error.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Bio-picks
- James Griffin
- 06 July 2006
James Griffin reviews the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol.16, John Ritchie and Diane Langmore, eds.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Film reviews
- Allan James Thomas, Morag Fraser, Gordon Lewis and Siobhan Jackson
- 31 May 2006
Reviews of the ﬁlms The Station Agent, The Passion of the Christ, The Fog of War and Irreversible.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Film reviews
- Film reviewers
- 21 April 2006
Reviews of the films Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; The Brothers Grimm; Good Night, and Good Luck; and The Constant Gardener.
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Keywords: James Mccarthy