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David Dale The Tribal Mind
Enough with the hipster-bashing -- Look into your own heart
David Dale How to tell if you are a closet hipster.
How many deaths will it take to change Romney's heart ?
Warwick McFadyen Of all the words that have been uttered in the aftermath of the massacre at the Aurora cinema in Colorado, those of Republican candidate Mitt Romney seem the most bizarre.
Lame stories haunt an industry with a dead heart
David Dale ZOMBIES are so hot right now, so I'm going to apply the term to the Australian film industry. Every time you think it's dead, buried and nibbled by maggots, it staggers out of the grave and gives a ..
America’s heart: sweet and sour
Daniel Flitton Britney Spears has brought her Circus to Melbourne. I went along.
Heart full of pride at sight of veil
Dick Gross My godless heart leaps with joy when I see brave, veiled Muslim women walking in Australian streets. My soul sings at this sight.
David Dale The Tribal Mind
THE RATINGS RACE: Week 7
David Dale How Australia watched in the week ending February 16, when Masterchef: The Professionals bingled down to half a million while My Kitchen Rules soared above 2 million.
Music, a refuge from these times
Warwick McFadyen There’s a place to go when the news is despair. Just listen.
Observing national epiphanies
Dick Gross An epiphany is a sudden and striking realisation. The penny drops. The light bulb goes on.
David Dale The Tribal Mind
Is James Bond a fascist puppet?
David Dale He may be a naughty boy, but he always does what mummy asks -- Four out of the five most successful movies this year celebrate rebellious individualism; the other celebrates blind patriotism.
Christmas is a time for ...
Dick Gross The God of Sun, not the Son of God, is the heart of Christmas.
David Dale The Tribal Mind
WHO WE ARE: The alien is us
David Dale The best movies are those that leave you pondering your place in the universe. Here's where you can nominate your favourite thought-provokers.
David Dale The Tribal Mind
WHO WE ARE: The next texts to make HSC students happy
David Dale What movies and TV shows should be part of the HSC English syllabus, helping to turn our kids into confident, creative, and thoughtful adults?
Barney Zwartz
The deadly dilemma
Barney Zwartz When can we say someone is dead enough to offer life?
David Dale The Tribal Mind
WHO WE ARE: When the words matter more than the music
David Dale Gangnam Style has been praised as a "brilliant satire". But it's in Korean! Have we reached the point when lyrics are of no value any more?
Kevin and the Catholics focus on forgiveness
Dick Gross Putting Kevin Rudd and a major Jesuit institution together in one room was an opportunity for the two to say: "We're both thrashing around lost and bedraggled; how can we recover?"
The Birthday of a Queen
Dick Gross Today, unless you live in WA or, ironically, in Queensland, we celebrate the birthday of our Queen (WA and Queensland celebrate the Queen's Birthday on 1 October). Today we can learn things ...
False notes on the campaign trail
Warwick McFadyen Every four years American politicians — of whatever persuasion — running for the presidency will come afoul of songwriters.
The taboo around body parts
Dick Gross Derryn Hinch is as mad as hell. I am talking mad as in furious – seriously furious.
The OzQuiz Answers
David Dale These are the answers to the OzQuiz. Before you read them, go to The OzQuiz and look at the questions.
WHO WE ARE: Why Japan and Switzerland are Australia's key competitors
David Dale Here's how we're hatched, matched, detached and despatched, and how we feel about that.
