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Music without instruments

  • Philippa Martyr
  • 4th May 2009
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Kitchen sinks, polypipe, empty tin cans, bin lids, water, newspaper, brooms, dustpans, brushes, boxes of matches, hubcaps, and all the other detritus of any industrial workplace are transformed by STOMP09 into a symphony orchestra. 

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May Day Message

  • "William York"
  • 1st May 2009
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We celebrate May Day with a custom called the “Cash Splash”. I am not clear when this habit started but do the names of Costello or Swan mean anything to you?

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Eavesdropping on a cultural crisis

  • Philippa Martyr
  • 30th April 2009
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Mervyn Bendle is dead right when he writes about Asian students haplessly absorbing mega-jive about Australian history and culture.

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The censor cometh

  • John Izzard
  • 27th April 2009
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Censorship happened this month in Australia when the Rudd government censored what had happened to the appallingly injured Afghan boat-people when their Indonesian fishing boat exploded in the Indian Ocean.

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Gran Torino un-snubbed

  • Ben-Peter Terpstra
  • 27th April 2009
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The Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences snubbed Eastwood’s movie, Gran Torino. It’s disappointing. Sad, in fact, that our elites can’t see the cracks on those colourful picket fences.

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Be careful what you wish for

  • James Allan
  • 27th April 2009
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If this were a poker game then our Prime Minister would be doing what’s known in poker as ‘going all in’ to try to win a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council. He’s betting all his chips on winning this. That means he’s prepared to politicise the job of the Governor-General in order that […]

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Australia’s debt sentence

  • Cory Bernardi
  • 17th April 2009
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With a budget outlook suggesting over $200 billion in national debt will be accrued in little over three years. This is Mr Rudd’s debt sentence to all Australians.

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The Boat that Sucked – Big time

  • Philippa Martyr
  • 17th April 2009
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The only thing I can recommend in this film is the clothes. The costume department excelled itself: Chris O’Dowd’s patchwork velvet wedding jacket is to die for; ditto Rhys Ilfans’ purple velvet sharp-fitting suit. The irritating lesbian wears some lovely crocheted waistcoats.

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Kevin saves the whales

  • Patrick McCauley
  • 17th April 2009
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Kevin Rudd’s Statement to the Press re the Recent Incident on Ashmore Reef.  There has been a dramatic increase of Whale Beaching on Australia’s northern shores. Experts believe the whales are escaping from a tyranny of white whales who are the descendants of Moby Dick. These white whales are hoarding all the plankton, forcing indigenous […]

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At sea and Rudderless

  • James Allan
  • 13th April 2009
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My family and I are lucky enough to be in a position to apply for Australian citizenship in another 7 or 8 weeks. We are presently both Canadian and New Zealand citizens who arrived from New Zealand four and a half years ago. Unlike most Kiwis we got a permanent residence visa – which means they put […]

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