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We must go into the new year impelled by hope, because to dwell on 2020 and all its terrors and anxieties is to surrender to darkness
Those whose rhythms align with the Gregorian calendar are counting down the last weeks and days of December and putting pen, actual or figurative, to next year’s planner.
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Diligent journalism, urgent fiction, wondrous imagination: Guardian Australia critics and staff bring you their top reads of the year – in no particular order
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It had sat, a perpetual fire hazard I’m sure, in seven or eight boxes in our roof. What to keep? Why?
In the end I couldn’t toss out my mother’s old exercise books filled with her adolescent writing about spirituality, Romantic poetry and the great 18th and 19th century novelists.
This morning I rescued them from the garbage bag where I put them yesterday during the beginning of an ongoing cull of my personal archive.
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An anti-war group accused BAE Systems Australia of trying to sanitise its reputation through its ‘partnership’ with The Smith Family
Many are the ways a multinational arms manufacturer, whose products are responsible for the deaths of countless humans including children, may seek reputational enhancement.
Merchants of death may fund a range of cash-strapped tertiary institutions for Stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) programs, as happens in Australia now.