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The Labor leader’s assertion of the historical ‘holes in national memory’ around frontier violence and resistance is commendable and important
Ever since Australian troops fought under a British flag in the disastrous Gallipoli invasion and retreat, mainstream national politics has been beset with historical memory loss.
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Influential business people associated with the AFL club say now is the time to bring in 21st century skills and experience
Elizabeth Proust grew up in Sydney as a proud supporter of what was then the Balmain Tigers rugby league club.
When she moved to Melbourne and married Brian Lawrence in 1972, she passionately adopted his Collingwood Football Club as her own. As a Collingwood supporter and member she has been dismayed by the episodic flare-ups of racism against Indigenous people and those of colour that have shamed her club.
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Eddie McGuire’s response to the Do Better report shows he has not learned, and should be replaced
As gold rush money fuelled the ever-expanding Melbourne of the 1850s, remnants of Wurundjeri people, decimated by disease, starvation and violent dispossession, were still to be found on a vast expanse of woodland and pasture down by the Yarra in Abbotsford.