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Win or lose this Saturday, to me and thousands of other fiercely tribal Collingwood fans it will be about so much more than the game
Whenever I glance up from the desk here in Sydney my eye is drawn to two copies of century-plus-old faded and framed photographs on the wall of my study.
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A dive into the hidden histories of Australia’s early settlers shows the country wasn’t just built on the sheep’s back
As the decades shed ever more light on colonialism’s brutal treatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, Australia has sought reassurance that at least, unlike Britain and America, our history is not marred with the heinous stain of the Caribbean and African slave trade.
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The real ‘settler’ and pioneering stories of Feilberg’s Queensland were confronting and frightening
During his short life Danish-born Carl Feilberg risked more than any other Australian journalist or author to expose the brutality against Indigenous people on the ultra-violent Queensland colonial frontier of the late 19th century.
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Until I saw the note stapled to a rusty old drying rack, I had thought my neighbourhood was quite safe
A few weeks ago when I was walking down near the ferry terminal, a peaceful place where I like to go with my labrador Ronda and watch the boats, I saw this message attached to a piece of discarded household junk.
If you don’t move your rubbish from here
I know where you live
and I will kill you