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Whether it’s the hardware store or Ikea – AKA the divorce factory – there are harsh realities to be confronted
I’m sure Bunnings is a verb.
As in, “It’s Saturday so we’d better do what half of Sydney does and Bunnings before the car park fills up.”
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In this extract from his book On Patriotism, Paul Daley traces the arc of a once quiet and dignified commemoration to a modern sound-and-light show
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Thirty years after its creation the memorial is more important than ever in its service of national memory
It is three decades since white Australia threw an exclusive party for itself to celebrate a bicentenary of European invasion and settlement that trampled on the sensibilities of this continent’s Indigenous people.
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A sensitive documentary shows the theft and eventual return of human bones to Arnhem Land
Early next month when the documentary film, Etched in Bone, is screened for the small west Arnhem Land Aboriginal settlement of Gunbalanya it will be almost seven decades to the day since an expedition of American and Australian scientists stole the remains of community elders and dispatched them to Washington.