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He has the most evoked name in Australia thanks to the Covid-19 modelling that bears it. Features editor Lucy Clark recommends Paul Daley’s profile on Peter Doherty, which ranges from politics, books, misinformation and that tweet
You can read the original article here: Covid, Twitter, and Dan Murphy’s opening hours: Peter Doherty on his not-so-restful retirement
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The UK/Australia Season is the largest ever cultural exchange between the two nations, including shell-covered slippers, a 19th-century Indigenous cricket team and uprising anthems linking Brixton to Palm Island
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I’m imagining an empty G. I’ll try to be happy for mates in Perth but I’ve got serious Melbourne fomo
There is no week in the calendar I love more than the one that counts down to the AFL grand final.
As an ex-Melburnian, much of whose past is there, it’s a nostalgic festival of kinship and mates and memories and, foremost, the game – for all its anthropological intrigues and tribalism, hatreds and loves, history and mythology.
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Yass Valley returns to lockdown after two-day reprieve; Victoria records highest new cases in over a year. This blog is now closed.
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Usually I would think, what’s the point of picnics?
I liked my grandmother-in-law.
She was feisty and forthright. No-nonsense and funny. Candid and practical in that laconic grew-up-through-the-Great-Depression, rural-Queensland way she had.
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Two decades after that seismic day, it’s right to ask where the ‘war on terror’ has left America – and allies such as Australia
In London that day, writing for daily newspapers for an Australia mostly asleep during the attacks on the twin towers and the Pentagon, watching the TV live when the second aircraft struck, the myriad hot media and political takes about what it meant and what must happen next only added to confusion.
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Former Liberal PM Billy McMahon approved spy agency request to conduct covert operations in Chile, a move later overturned by Gough Whitlam
Australia’s covert overseas spy agency, the Australian Secret Intelligence Service, opened a base in Santiago to assist in the US Central Intelligence Agency’s destabilisation of the Chilean government ahead of the bloody military coup against Salvador Allende’s socialist government 48 years ago today.
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Their discovery proved millennia of continuous Indigenous existence but now time is running out for those who want to stop them being buried again. Features editor Lucy Clark recommends Paul Daley’s piece that showcases the tension between three different groups as they tackle with difficult questions
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The historical oppression of Indigenous men has shaped perceptions of First Nations masculinity. A lovingly curated book of letters challenges stereotypes
When Wiradjuri woman and Miles Franklin-winning novelist Tara June Winch met Torres Strait Islander author and activist Thomas Mayor at last year’s Perth writers’ festival, she implored the dad of five to write about fatherhood.
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He has the most evoked name in Australia thanks to the Covid-19 modelling that bears it. He talks politics, books, misinformation, and that tweet
As soon as Australia’s most famous medical scientist, the veterinary surgeon, immunologist and Nobel laureate Peter Doherty, answers his phone, it dawns on me that it is probably the worst time of day to call him.