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ARTS AND CULTURE

Evangelicals, exiles, and other tall tales
- Ken Haley
- 12 December 2024
Lech Blaine’s Australian Gospel is a quintessentially Australian tale of faith, family, and identity. Blaine explores the fractures of belief and belonging in an effervescent and vivid work of creative nonfiction. But where does the ‘non-’ stop and the ‘fiction’ begin?
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead worried
- Warwick McFadyen
- 31 October 2024
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Guildenstern and Rosencrantz find themselves deep in conversation on a sunny November afternoon, questioning the troubling climate of modern power. Can reason stand in a world so ready to yield?
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ENVIRONMENT

The forest wars
- Tony Smith
- 04 October 2024
The Forest Wars reveals how vested interests make life difficult for the scientists and activists who attempt to defend the environment, a war waged through deforestation on one hand and deception and obfuscation on the other. Linenmayer asks: if we continue to allow vested interests to drive deforestation, how long before the forests — and the future they promise — are lost beyond repair?
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AUSTRALIA

What does it mean to be complicit?
- Warwick McFadyen
- 27 June 2024
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To be complicit, must you share the same intent? If one says nothing, does nothing, does this signify complicity? Is there then such a thing as an innocent bystander?
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Autumn's parting prayer
- Warwick McFadyen
- 06 June 2024
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The chill of winter is now upon us. It is said that landscape is a defining factor in how a people have developed and how their behaviour is formed and modified. So too it is for the season. So thank you, autumn.
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INTERNATIONAL

Poland and the problem of borders
- Gillian Bouras
- 06 June 2024
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The Prime Minister of Poland announced a $2.5 billion plan to fortify borders with Russian Kaliningrad and Belarus, highlighting the ongoing struggle for stability and security in a continent preparing for a future of conflict.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Elegy for Peter Porter
- John Kinsella
- 05 June 2024
An elegy doesn’t need to be written straight after a death... and maybe one’s own death catches up before the obituary we write is published. It might be something like re-arranging modernism into structurally sound lines, or discussing the context of metaphors in poems about London and friendship.
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INTERNATIONAL

Americans look after each other because their government won't
- Sarah Klenbort
- 03 April 2024
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Americans, facing high healthcare costs, frequently resort to crowdfunding for essential treatments, highlighting a reliance on volunteerism to fill government gaps. Meanwhile, Australians, benefiting from a higher tax-funded safety net, donate less to charity. So how do differing approaches to social welfare influence the spirit of community and generosity?
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The Centre of Zero
- Warwick McFadyen
- 13 March 2024
You open the atlas and run your fingers along the edges of continents, climb mountains, trace valleys, pause at coastlines of sand and wave. This is where you have been and this, fingers arched, is where you want to go. Death is too faint to be seen. Though you know it’s there, the undiscovered country.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

On the anniversary of a poet's birth, a universal message to nations
- Warwick McFadyen
- 20 February 2024
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‘The loss of memory by a nation is also a loss of its conscience.’ As the loss of conscience grows with each succeeding generation, one day righting the boat on the sea of forgetfulness will become impossible. In the end, what people don’t know, they won’t miss.
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AUSTRALIA

Black swans and the art of expecting the unexpected
- Max Jeganathan
- 24 January 2024
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Even the best forecasting gets it wrong, and every year has its own 'Black Swan' events, characterised by their unpredictability and impact. They remind us that the future is unpredictable, perpetually lurching between prediction and confusion.
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ENVIRONMENT

Best of 2023: The heat will kill you first
- David Halliday
- 11 January 2024
How will a warming planet impact us? In conversation with Eureka Street, longtime climate journalist and contributing editor for Rolling Stone Jeff Goodell discusses two decades of covering climate change, examining the effects a superheated world, and how humanity will need to adapt.
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Keywords: Trees