Submitted by Paul Daley on
Facebook was an Exocet into the bunker of my obsessive compulsions
The revelations about Cambridge Analytica’s harvest of Facebook data signalled the end of the end for me.
Submitted by Paul Daley on
In defending the theft of the Shellal mosaic from Palestine, Australian officials played the Elgin Marbles card
As the first world war’s endgame was unfolding across the European western front and Middle East a century ago, Australia and Britain were tangled in their own acrimonious fight over which had the right to the most prized battlefield loot.
Submitted by Paul Daley on
Long before the Dutch or British came, the land resounded with stories that charted the sky, the beasts and all the humans
From Bennelong’s place at Kissing Point I take the ferry back downriver and into the wind towards the point, now adorned with the opera house, that bears his name. It’s where the first governor, Arthur Phillip, built Bennelong a small hut in which he lived, periodically, before opting in later years for a more traditional life.
Submitted by Paul Daley on
Recognition of a Melbourne site where Indigenous elders are buried is a moment of profound symbolic note
The commonwealth’s National Heritage List has finally recognised a symbolic part of central Melbourne where the bones of many Indigenous elders lay buried.