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Writing for The Australian, Christopher Pearson covers a wide variety of cultural and religious matters pertaining to Australian society. He served as a speech writer to the former Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard.

Words with the power to move

• BY:CHRISTOPHER PEARSON 
 
• From:The Australian 
 
• March 30, 2013 12:00AM

• 
  

ON Tuesday, after church, I was taken home by a Vietnamese taxi driver. The radio was on and an announcer played Boney M's version of Rivers of Babylon to commemorate the 25th anniversary of its release.

The driver, a knowledgeable Buddhist, was more than just politely surprised at my knowing the text in Latin and the King James version, and the assurance that in Latin Rite and Orthodox congregations across the world the Lamentations of Jeremiah would be being sung in musical settings - most of them ancient and very formally demanding - lasting many hours during the course of Holy Week.

If there is a postmodern lesson to be learned in all this, I suppose it's that civilisations never quite abandon or forget their meta-narratives. They just morph like this one into ganja-sodden Rastafarian versions for the disco generation, where the only technical developments are that some of the voices are entirely studio created and half the line-up lip-synch.

The liturgy in which the Lamentations are heard is called Tenebrae, the lessons delivered in the darkness. They are the psalms and readings for Matins and Lauds appointed for the Thursday, Friday and Saturday of Holy Week, normally sung the night before in a near-darkened church where one of the few candles is extinguished at the end of each psalm. In Catholic churches in Australia, which are often poor, mean buildings, it can be a distinct advantage not to be able to see where you are and to have to fall back on the texts and the music.

The texts are structured around the Babylonian Exile, which ended in 538BC. In Judaism it is seen as the period where God punished his chosen people for their faithlessness in straying after strange gods, before restoring them to the promised land and allowing them to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem.

In the Christian liturgy, the narrative of exile is conflated with the advent and rejection of Christ as the Messiah, his crucifixion and the new covenant.





 It is a season of sackcloth and ashes, transfigured by the prospect of Easter and renewal.

Jeremiah's lamentations over Jerusalem are plangent at any time and it is arguable that there is no year's Lent in living memory when the church has had more need or urgent occasion to invoke them.

Quomodo sedet sola civitas plena populo: facta est quasi vidua domina gentium: princeps provinciarum facta est sub tribute. "How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! How is she become as a widow! She that was great among the nations and princess among the provinces, how is she reduced to paying tribute."

Plorans ploravit in nocte, et lacrimae ejus in maxillis ejus: non est qui consoletur eam ex omnibus caris ejus: omnes amici ejus spreverent eam, et facti sunt inimici. "She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all who love her she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies."

If words such as these have the power to move you, read them over slowly aloud the way you encounter poetry for the first time. If the Latin is more of a distraction than a help, disregard it. If you have the luxury of time, familiarise yourself with the texts and Google them in performance. The Gregorian chant version, augmented with Tomas Luis de Victoria's settings of the responsories, is probably the best-loved. Couperin's Lecons de Tenebres is ravishing in a different way; a triumph of baroque minimalism, once heard, never forgotten.

Migravit Judas propter afflictionem, et multitudinem servitutis: habitavit inter gentes, nec invenit requiem: omnes persecutors ejus apprehenderunt eam inter angustias. "Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits."

Vitae Sion lugent eo quod non sint qui veniant ad solemnitatem: omnes portae ejus destructae: sacerdotes ejus gementes: virgines ejus squalidae, et ipsa oppressa amaritudine. "The paths of Zion mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness."

In his commentary on the Way of the Cross at the Roman Forum during Holy Week 2005, days before he was elected pope, Joseph Ratzinger talked about "the filth that defiles the church". He was the first person in a position of great authority to do so in many years and took unprecedented steps to expunge it but got virtually no credit for doing so in most of the media.

Jeremiah's lament over Jerusalem tells us: Sordes ejus in pedibus ejus, nec recordata est finis sui: deposita est vehementer, non habens consolatorem. "Her filthiness is in her skirts, she remembereth not her last end; therefore she has been overthrown, she had no comforter."

In among the lamentations and the penitential Psalms there are signs of hope; not least, St Paul's recapitulation of the Last Supper.

Also fresh in my mind is a lesson from St Augustine on the Psalms: "I would to God that the ungodly who now try us were converted, and so were on trial with us. Yet, though they continue to try us, let us not hate them: for we know not whether any of them will continue to the end in his evil ways. And mostly, when thou thinkest thyself to be hating thine enemy, thou hatest thy brother, and knowest it not."

C Pearson: Words with the power to move

Writing for The Australian, Christopher Pearson covers a wide variety of cultural and religious matters pertaining to Australian society. He served as a speech writer to the former Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard.

Words with the power to move

• BY:CHRISTOPHER PEARSON 
• From:The Australian 
• March 30, 2013 12:00AM

• 
  

ON Tuesday, after church, I was taken home by a Vietnamese taxi driver. The radio was on and an announcer played Boney M's version of Rivers of Babylon to commemorate the 25th anniversary of its release.

The driver, a knowledgeable Buddhist, was more than just politely surprised at my knowing the text in Latin and the King James version, and the assurance that in Latin Rite and Orthodox congregations across the world the Lamentations of Jeremiah would be being sung in musical settings - most of them ancient and very formally demanding - lasting many hours during the course of Holy Week.

If there is a postmodern lesson to be learned in all this, I suppose it's that civilisations never quite abandon or forget their meta-narratives. They just morph like this one into ganja-sodden Rastafarian versions for the disco generation, where the only technical developments are that some of the voices are entirely studio created and half the line-up lip-synch.

The liturgy in which the Lamentations are heard is called Tenebrae, the lessons delivered in the darkness. They are the psalms and readings for Matins and Lauds appointed for the Thursday, Friday and Saturday of Holy Week, normally sung the night before in a near-darkened church where one of the few candles is extinguished at the end of each psalm. In Catholic churches in Australia, which are often poor, mean buildings, it can be a distinct advantage not to be able to see where you are and to have to fall back on the texts and the music.

The texts are structured around the Babylonian Exile, which ended in 538BC. In Judaism it is seen as the period where God punished his chosen people for their faithlessness in straying after strange gods, before restoring them to the promised land and allowing them to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem.

In the Christian liturgy, the narrative of exile is conflated with the advent and rejection of Christ as the Messiah, his crucifixion and the new covenant. It is a season of sackcloth and ashes, transfigured by the prospect of Easter and renewal.

Jeremiah's lamentations over Jerusalem are plangent at any time and it is arguable that there is no year's Lent in living memory when the church has had more need or urgent occasion to invoke them.

Quomodo sedet sola civitas plena populo: facta est quasi vidua domina gentium: princeps provinciarum facta est sub tribute. "How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! How is she become as a widow! She that was great among the nations and princess among the provinces, how is she reduced to paying tribute."

Plorans ploravit in nocte, et lacrimae ejus in maxillis ejus: non est qui consoletur eam ex omnibus caris ejus: omnes amici ejus spreverent eam, et facti sunt inimici. "She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all who love her she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies."

If words such as these have the power to move you, read them over slowly aloud the way you encounter poetry for the first time. If the Latin is more of a distraction than a help, disregard it. If you have the luxury of time, familiarise yourself with the texts and Google them in performance. The Gregorian chant version, augmented with Tomas Luis de Victoria's settings of the responsories, is probably the best-loved. Couperin's Lecons de Tenebres is ravishing in a different way; a triumph of baroque minimalism, once heard, never forgotten.

Migravit Judas propter afflictionem, et multitudinem servitutis: habitavit inter gentes, nec invenit requiem: omnes persecutors ejus apprehenderunt eam inter angustias. "Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits."

Vitae Sion lugent eo quod non sint qui veniant ad solemnitatem: omnes portae ejus destructae: sacerdotes ejus gementes: virgines ejus squalidae, et ipsa oppressa amaritudine. "The paths of Zion mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness."

In his commentary on the Way of the Cross at the Roman Forum during Holy Week 2005, days before he was elected pope, Joseph Ratzinger talked about "the filth that defiles the church". He was the first person in a position of great authority to do so in many years and took unprecedented steps to expunge it but got virtually no credit for doing so in most of the media.

Jeremiah's lament over Jerusalem tells us: Sordes ejus in pedibus ejus, nec recordata est finis sui: deposita est vehementer, non habens consolatorem. "Her filthiness is in her skirts, she remembereth not her last end; therefore she has been overthrown, she had no comforter."

In among the lamentations and the penitential Psalms there are signs of hope; not least, St Paul's recapitulation of the Last Supper.

Also fresh in my mind is a lesson from St Augustine on the Psalms: "I would to God that the ungodly who now try us were converted, and so were on trial with us. Yet, though they continue to try us, let us not hate them: for we know not whether any of them will continue to the end in his evil ways. And mostly, when thou thinkest thyself to be hating thine enemy, thou hatest thy brother, and knowest it not."

Noel Pearson's Cape York trial 'changing lives'

Noel Pearson's Cape York trial 'changing lives'

• BY:PATRICIA KARVELAS 
• From:The Australian 
• March 28, 2013 12:00AM

Noel Pearson says the Cape York welfare reform trial has produced results. Picture: David Geraghty Source: The Australian

ABORIGINAL leader Noel Pearson has called for a federal takeover of indigenous affairs if the Queensland government fails to fund his radical Cape York Welfare Reform trial, amid evidence the program has cut crime rates, improved infrastructure and services and helped school attendance levels.

An independent evaluation report into the trial, obtained by The Australian, says individuals and families are beginning to gain respite from daily living problems and people feel that life is "on the way up". It finds that, since the trial began in July 2008, the Cape York communities of Aurukun, Coen, Hopevale and Mossman Gorge in far north Queensland have experienced improved school attendance, care and protection of children, and community safety.

It says people in the four communities are taking on greater personal responsibility and raising expectations, "particularly in areas such as sending kids to school, caring for children and families and their needs, and accessing supported self-help measures to deal with problems". After only three years of the trial, the report says there has been a "level of progress that has rarely been evident in previous reform programs in Queensland's remote indigenous communities".

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"What is most promising is that some of the progress relates to subtle but fundamental shifts in behaviour that, if sustained and built upon, can be expected to yield significant longer-term results," it says.

The Cape York welfare trial, which has received about $100 million from the federal and Queensland governments, includes funding for economic development projects, but is centred on the Family Responsibility Commission. The FRC is able to withhold welfare payments from parents in circumstances such as failure to send their children to school.

Mr Pearson, director of the Cape York Institute, yesterday accused Queensland Indigenous Affairs Minister Glen Elmes of being a "cowboy" following the state's declaration on Tuesday that it could no longer justify its expenditure on the program.

"I see this as a real crossroads," Mr Pearson said.

"Given the reversal (on alcohol bans in communities) that has taken place in the Northern Territory on the reform agenda and given the reversal that is now taking place in Queensland, it raises a real question about whether states and territories should at all be involved in indigenous policy."

Mr Pearson said Queensland had now taken its regressive policy direction further by backing out of welfare reform that was transforming Aboriginal people's lives.

"The crisis in indigenous communities that (federal Indigenous Affairs Minister) Jenny Macklin understands, but that the Queensland government doesn't understand, has two nose-on-the-face features - alcohol and welfare dependency.

"And on those two issues we now have the Queensland government's decision to reverse alcohol control and now to stop welfare reform. The position the Queensland government has adopted is one of really begging the question: If you're not going to invest in indigenous affairs and indigenous reform, then why are you in indigenous affairs at all?

"There has been no focus by the Queensland government on indigenous reform. They have just allowed Glen Elmes to kind of make things up on the run. This cowboy has just basically come in to the scene and off-the-cuff decided that this program was going to stop. He does not himself have a credible alternative and he ignores the very explicit positive report that is contained in the evaluation."

Mr Pearson accused Mr Elmes of making the decision without the advice of his department, which had been discussing future models of the trial.

Mr Elmes yesterday continued to defend the Newman government's decision, saying it was "far too expensive an exercise for just four communities".

"It has had mixed results and in places like Cherbourg and Mornington Island, they are getting kids to school in other ways that don't cost as much."

Between 2008 and 2011, the trial drew about $48m in commonwealth funding, with a further $40m coming from the Queensland government. The state's contribution this year is $5.65m and Mr Elmes said on Tuesday it would not be renewed next year. The commonwealth is providing $11.8m this year and remains "committed to continuing funding for the trial".

The evaluation report - commissioned by all parties to the trial, including the two governments - concludes that in Aurukun and Mossman Gorge, there were "statistically significant improvements" in school attendance, reflected in falls in students' unexplained absences from school.

Coen and Hope Vale have historically had higher rates of school attendance. This did not change during the trial at Coen, while Hope Vale recorded a very small increase in unexplained absences in 2011. There has been a significant increase in school attendance in Aurukun, where it has risen from 46.1 per cent in the first term of 2008 to 70.9 per cent in the first term of 2012.

The trial communities' attendance rate was 4 percentage points lower than the attendance rate in comparable indigenous communities in 2008, but by 2011, it was six percentage points higher.

By tracking individual students' attendance across years, analysis reveals that Year 2 students in the trial communities went from three percentage points below the attendance rates of their peers in comparable indigenous communities in 2008 to nine percentage points higher in 2011. "The change in Aurukun is greater than in any other indigenous community in Queensland, and there are indications that it is related to the actions of the FRC," the report says. "It is also clear that the improvements in Aurukun are not part of a general trend in indigenous communities in Queensland."

The evaluation also found a large sustained fall in serious assaults resulting in injury in Aurukun in mid-2008, which reflects the impact of the closure of the Aurukun Tavern.

The report concludes the "improvements across the trial communities did reverse a trend of rising offence rates prior to the trial, which was not the case in comparison communities".

Another positive indicator is that the hospitalisation rate for assault has been lower in the communities than it was before the trial, although "it is not possible to definitively link this to the trial as a similar trend is evident in other indigenous communities in Queensland".

The FRC has been shown to have played a crucial role in increasing parental responsibility and restoring social norms in communities. But the evaluation also highlights challenges with assisting harder-to-reach groups in the communities, including young people who are no longer engaged in education.

The report shows that local indigenous authority is stronger as a result of the work of the FRC and this has been a key factor

in bringing about positive behavioural change.

As part of the evaluation, a Social Change Survey was undertaken among indigenous people in all trial communities. It found the FRC was respected and valued by the majority of community members and was seen as a driving force for change.

Importantly, two-thirds of respondents felt that people should go to the FRC if they did not take their children to school and that the community would be a better place to live if everyone followed up on their talks with the FRC.

When asked about changes in social and safety issues, 52 per cent of respondents felt that more people were trying to be better parents; 24 per cent felt more people were trying to give up grog, smoking or gambling; and 33 per cent felt there was less fighting between families.

Ms Macklin told The Australian the independent evaluation proved the trial was making a difference to Aboriginal lives.

"We know progress is being made and that there is still more to be done, particularly in the areas of increasing employment and home ownership opportunities," she said.

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CUT & PASTE From:The Australian March 23, 2013 12:00AM

Ready to belt the misogyny out of any man, unless he has a microphone and a bunny suit

• BY:CUT & PASTE 
• From:The Australian 
• March 23, 2013 12:00AM

WHEN it comes to Julia Gillard's standards, it sometimes seems like a case of double or nothing.

Misogyny Day. The Prime Minister in question time on October 9, 2012:

I SAY to the Leader of the Opposition, I will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man. I will not. And the government will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man. Not now, not ever. ... Misogyny, sexism, every day from this Leader of the Opposition. Every day in every way, across the time the Leader of the Opposition has sat in that chair and I've sat in this chair, that is all we have heard from him.

Christopher Pyne in question time on Tuesday:

THE Prime Minister answered the question and then she, as an aside, said for some unknown reason, "misogynist Tony is back".

Let's hear from a true expert. Kyle Sandilands on November 22, 2011:

SOME fat slag on news.com.au has already branded (my TV show) a disaster. You can tell by reading the article that she just hates us and has always hated us. What a fat, bitter thing you are. You're deputy editor of an online thing. You've got a nothing job, anyway. You're a piece of shit. This low thing, Alison Stephenson, deputy editor of news.com.au online. You're supposed to be impartial, you little troll. You're a bullshit artist, girl. You should be fired from your job. Your hair's very '90s. And your blouse. You haven't got that much titty to be having that low cut a blouse. Watch your mouth or I'll hunt you down.

Gillard with Sandilands and Jackie O on 2Day FM yesterday:

SANDILANDS: Are you sitting behind the big desk this morning Prime Minister?

Gillard: I'm not behind the big desk right now, Kyle, I'm sorry, but I did want to say good morning to you and to Jackie O and to say we've got to go Easter egg hunting, don't we?

Gillard on Abbott on Misogyny Day:

DOESN'T turn a hair about any of his past statements, doesn't walk into this parliament and apologise to the women of Australia. Doesn't walk into this parliament and apologise to me for the things that have come out of his mouth.

Out of his mouth. Sandilands's first response on July 29, 2009, when a 14-year-old guest revealed she'd been raped when she was only 12:

RIGHT ... is that the only (sexual) experience you've had?

Gillard in an apres-interview tweet to Kyle and Jackie O yesterday:

THANKS for the chat. Can't wait to see Kyle in a bunny suit!

Back to Gillard on Misogyny Day:

WELL, this kind of hypocrisy must not be tolerated.

Dedicated to Ferguson, Crean, Bowen et al. From Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector (1836):

KHLESTAKOV: So, have your patients recovered? There didn't seem that many.

Warden: Since I took over the running of the place ... they've been recovering like flies.

Following on from the last thrilling instalment of Cut & Paste, Gerard Henderson in Media Watch Dog yesterday:

WHAT a Walkley-worthy piece by Laura Tingle in yesterday's Australian Financial Review. It appears that La Tingle wrote an article on the new edition of David Marr's Political Animal: The Making of Tony Abbott (Black Inc) based merely on the publisher's blurb which was, well, just blurb. As a result, Tingle claimed that the new edition of Political Animal had unearthed copies of correspondence between Tony Abbott and B. A. Santamaria in the late 1980s which are located in the Santamaria Collection in the State Library of Victoria.

In fact, this correspondence was discovered by the Melbourne-based researcher Geoffrey Browne and written up by historians Ross Fitzgerald and Stephen Holt in the front-page splash in The Weekend Australian on 13 October 2012.

The source of the Abbott-Santamaria correspondence is acknowledged by David Marr in the new edition of Political Animal. Maybe La Tingle does not read The Australian.