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TRANSGENDER ACTIVISTS TARGET CATHOLIC HOSPITALS IN U.S.

HUMAN RIGHTS & FREEDOMS, LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYAugust 5, 2020

by Terri M. Kelleher Bostock case in U.S. extended meaning of “sex” to sexual orientation and gender identity Catholic hospitals under pressure to provide transgender surgeries, which offend against Catholic teaching on the integrity of the body Exemptions for religious organisations from sex discrimination is under threat in Australia Cases of transgender activists suing Catholic hospitals in the United States are likely to have repercussions on anti-discrimination exemptions in Australia. Less than one month after the U.S. Supreme Court decided in the Bostock case that the word “sex” in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination…

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THE BLACKEST OPERATION OF THEM ALL

MUSIC CINEMA & BOOKSAugust 5, 2020

THE KILLING SEASON: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66 by Geoffrey B. Robinson Princeton University Press, New JerseyPaperback: 456 pages Price: AUD$42.99 Reviewed by Paul Monk Confronted, after 1945 (and even more from 1949–50) with a communist bloc in which large-scale terror and totalitarian rule had repeatedly been imposed on hundreds of millions of people, the Anglo-American powers in 1947 took measures to create a global strategic and intelligence alliance to buttress the post-World War II world against the threat of communist subversion and revolution. Over the decades of the Cold War, beginning with the Berlin airlift in 1948,…

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POETRY

POETRY LETTERS & HUMOURAugust 5, 2020

REINCARNATION BLUES Though buried by volcanic ash in Pompeii I re-emerged to sweep the slums of Bombay where, fortunately, I died from emphysema. I hope I’m not reborn in Hiroshima. AT A RESTAURANT IN BERLIN, 1936 You asked the famous leader to autograph your napkin. You thought that he was Hitler. He signed it “Charlie Chaplin”. THE STAMMERER In the world of talk she does not belong but the stammerer is set free by song, and the nimble rhymes of a teenage girl become the songs that heal the world. FLAMING BOOMERANG A flaming…

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Aug52020

ENNIO MORRICONE R.I.P.

MUSIC CINEMA & BOOKSAugust 5, 2020

MORRICONE LEAVES US WITH SCORES OF SCORES OF FILM SCORES AND MORE by David James Italian film composer Ennio Morricone, who died on July 6, was one of the few in the genre whose music went beyond being merely supportive. Only perhaps Henry Mancini and Lalo Schifrin produced such distinctive outputs and they lacked the adventurousness of Morricone, who combined a compelling lyricism with a panoply of different textures. Mostly he used orchestral variations, but he also found ways of exploring the porous barrier between music as organised sound and life as random sounds. In the last scene of The…

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