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Jonathan Meddings 11/04/2023

Several years ago I found a copy of Mein Kampf in a second-hand bookstore in country Victoria. Better my bookshelf than a ...

Mike Gaffney 29/03/2023

This is a lightly edited transcript of a speech given to the Tasmanian Legislative Council 28 March 2023. It is ...

Natalya Maitz 27/03/2023

The regent honeyeater is a small bird, mostly black, with speckles of soft yellow dotted down its body. Its chirp ...

Alan Petersen 09/03/2023

The recent decision of the major law firm MinterEllison to sever ties with the Adelaide Festival because it invited two Palestinian writers ...

Liam Elphick 01/03/2023

In 2018, Australians were shocked to learn that religious schools still had the right to discriminate against LGBTQ students and ...

Robert Dover 17/02/2023

The name crops up all over the place, but many people have no real understanding of what QAnon is, or ...

Reg Naulty 13/02/2023

Joe Biden's relationship with Barack Obama, as explored by Gabriel Debenedetti in The Long Alliance: The Imperfect Union of Joe ...

David Lewis 27/01/2023

This is a lightly edited transcript of a speech given to the Fraser Coast Regional Council on 25 February 2023. ...

Paul Monk 20/01/2023

Word has spread. After five and a half years as Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern is stepping down ...

Jon Piccini 16/01/2023

One of the first moves of the newly elected Whitlam Labor government in December 1972 was to free seven men ...

Geoffrey Barker 03/01/2023

Functions at Government House in Canberra these days are likely to end with a demand from Mrs Linda Hurley, wife ...

Geoffrey Barker 15/12/2022

The age of journalism is gone, managed information processing has succeeded, and the glory of newspapers is extinguished forever. This ...