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on Thursday, May 31, 2012
A New Opium
gallipoli,
cardinal,
pell,
june,
agnosticism
The Anzac cult Don Watson Of all believers who might have debated Richard Dawkins on the ABC earlier this year, Cardinal George Pell was surely among the more unlikely. There is no doubting the depth of the Archbishop?s faith or sincerity, of course; there can be no doubt about Rupert Mu...
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on Thursday, May 31, 2012
Murdoch & Company
leveson,
scandal,
june,
news,
essays
Rupert is finally reaping what he sowed Robert Manne For very many years Fleet Street newspapers employed private detective agencies in their search for ever more salacious stories. They provided them with valuable information obtained through bribing public officials including police, c...
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on Thursday, May 24, 2012
'Once Upon a Time in Anatolia' by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
film,
arts,
june,
noted,
nuri
Helen Garner Nuri Bilge Ceylan?s new movie is a long, brilliantly sophisticated and moving work, knitted together by subtle narrative threads that emerge and re-emerge through the texture of its manifest plot, a murder investigation. Three carloads of men ? cops, a prosecutor, a doctor ? trave...
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on Wednesday, May 2, 2012
The New Republican
republic,
reviewed,
may,
republican,
australian
Preparing for Another Tilt at the Crown Christopher Kremmer On a Monday evening in Canberra, weary, suited bureaucrats are making their journeys home along pavements strewn with autumnal leaf litter. The capital turns 100 next year, old enough to have filled in most of the gaps and acqui...
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on Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Saturday Night
reviewed,
may,
vincent,
st,
hospital
St Vincent?s Emergency Department Fiona Harari Surrounded by coteries of friends, two young women in party clothes are slumped in the waiting room of St Vincent?s Hospital in inner Sydney, and groaning in tandem. Their eyes are heavy and their heads, when not rolling backwards, are slouc...
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on Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Quiet, Please
reviewed,
may,
cityrail,
nation
CityRail?s ?Quiet Carriages? Trial Gail Bell The ticket seller at the security window at Tuggerah Railway Station, on NSW?s Central Coast, hands me a leaflet showing a young man?s face mugging into the camera, eyebrows raised, his index finger lifted to his mouth in the universal ?shush?...
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on Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Red Dog
may,
walking,
animals,
obedience,
disobedient
A Pet?s Mutiny Helen Garner In January my family, who live next door, went down the coast and left me in charge of our vegetable garden and their dog. Excellent. I would spend the summer reading novels on my bed, and every morning and evening I would take the red heeler to the park and m...
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on Wednesday, May 2, 2012
What Gina Wants
may,
abbott,
prospecting,
essays,
coalmining
Gina Rinehart?s quest for respect and gratitude Nick Bryant When Lang Hancock instructed his daughter, Gina, to oversee the layout and furnishings of his new office overlooking the Sydney Opera House, she chose to turn the cocktail cabinet into an object of devotion. Its panelling wou...
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on Wednesday, May 2, 2012
One-sport Wonders
may,
olympics,
sports,
children,
essays
Malcolm Knox Athletic children are being hot-housed to yield more stars and medals. But there?s a cost. It?s the type of dewy summer morning when you can be sunburnt by 8 am. On the cricket field, 10 year olds in whites are hoping the hard ball won?t come their way, or, if it must, that ...
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on Wednesday, May 2, 2012
An Unknown Soldier
may,
bombings,
ii,
essays,
monthly
A father?s World War II keepsake sparks a harrowing journey Robin Barker In April 2009, I attempted to climb Mount Kinabalu in Sabah, Borneo. Kinabalu is a stark granite freak of a mountain, 4095 metres high and topped by a crown of crazy spires wrapped in skeins of thick swirling clouds...
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