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Yorta Yorta man William Cooper made powerful appeals against Indigenous military service for an empire that had stolen Aboriginal land
In recent years the gatekeepers of Australian Anzac mythology have gone to lengths to embrace the stories of “black diggers”, Indigenous servicemen who fought for British empire and the commonwealth in our wars.
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He has been banging on with these dreary, condescending, cliched cultural themes, each instalment a little more ridiculous
Ever since the warmonger Billy Hughes urged Australian men to go and “fight for White Australia in France” during the first world war, Australian politicians have been banging the drum on the supposed sanctity of Anzac Day.
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The new NSW premier will need to govern from the centre and avoid the pitfalls of ideology, both moral and economic
If you’re searching for the enigma inside Dominic Perrottet, the latest New South Wales Liberal leader to be flung through the state premiership’s revolving in-door, perhaps don’t waste your time.
What you see and, more to the point, what the 39-year-old 46th state premier says you’ll see, is probably what you’ll get.
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To do what she’s done for 17 years is an Olympic feat of intellectual, emotional and physical endurance. An impossible act to follow
First the disclaimer: Fran Kelly is a dear friend of my family’s.
But also know this: it is a measure of her professionalism and dedication to journalism – which is to say, objectively parsing the facts and tailoring incisive questions – that friendship would never get in the way of a challenging “Fran” interview.
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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 to 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