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The 1986 fatal bombing of Melbourne’s police headquarters is taking centre stage in an electoral law and order tussle and raising potent questions
Thirty years ago this month, Craig Minogue, a 23-year-old on a hard criminal track, was convicted of murdering policewoman Angela Rose Taylor in the Easter 1986 bombing of Melbourne’s Russell Street police headquarters.
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When he toppled Abbott he bargained with the jackals of the right, and they stayed at his door
It was never going to end with a whimper.
The finale of Malcolm Bligh Turnbull’s political career was always going to happen with an explosive bang. And while the nation observes this week’s Liberal self-immolation with equal parts exasperation and morbid horror, the pyrotechnics have been characteristically Turnbull-ian as the PM audaciously demanded the mutineers unmask in return for his banishment.
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Fraser Anning, as well as sections of the media and parliament, continue a long tradition of racist rhetoric in Australia
It was heartening to see federal parliament roundly condemn the latest psephological boundary rider to demand national attention with an inflammatory Senate speech invoking the worst crimes of the Holocaust, praising the white Australia policy and proposing a ban on migration for Muslims.
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The benefits of being my children’s primary carer have been large, but I’d be lying if I said they’d come easily
Back at my primary school only two dads ever came to pick their kids up.
They were conspicuous because they stood together, well away from the mums, even though they probably didn’t have anything much in common beyond the obvious fact they were always the only fellas waiting for their offspring at the school gates.
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Indigenous warrior Windradyne is buried outside the city where ‘so many bad things happened in colonial times’