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The holy creed of Carbonus Rex
Roger Chao | September 17, 202465 million years ago, a natural act wiped out the dinosaurs, but today it’s the dinosaurs of the fossil fuel industry who imperil life on Earth.
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A nation of apologies
Roger Chao | September 16, 2024A lyrical perspective on the fraught political and constitutional issue of Aboriginal rights in this country.
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The Siren’s Call
Roger Chao | July 17, 2024These are difficult times but assuming things will go from bad to worse is a surefire way to make that happen. The future is ours to shape, and envisioning a brighter future is the first and most important step towards achieving it.
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Not in my name
Roger Chao | April 25, 2024The appalling events in Bondi Junction have given us all pause for thought in recent days, in a world where such horrors are all too common.
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The silent truth
Roger Chao | April 20, 2024Conflict has marred the whole of human history, but the hope for peace is everlasting in the human imagination. In a world riven by war from Ukraine to Israel, Yemen to Mayanmar, we should all remember our common humanity and the healing power of art.
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Battle cry of the unbowed
Roger Chao | November 30, 2023Young Australian writer Roger Chao offers an impassioned plea for tolerance and social justice in lyric form.
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Echoes of Louise
Amy Cannon | October 19, 2023Literary critics who can only view art through a political lens disdained the late Louise Glück for writing intensely personal poetry, but because of this, rather than despite it, her luminous and fiercely intelligent writing will long outlive her.
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Sir Gawain rides again
Stephanie Trigg | August 28, 2021The medieval romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was recently reimagined as a movie, but the poem itself already has a surprisingly contemporary message about tradition, modernity and our sense of self.
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Louise Glück wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
Nikolai Duffy | October 10, 2020The wonderful American poet Louise Glück has won this years Nobel Prize for Literature. The Nobel committee heralded her work ‘for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal’.