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My grandfather ‘played for Collingwood’ but my family is yet to fully untangle his tragic history
Every supporter has a unique personal story about why they barrack for their team. It might involve a special moment. Just as often it’s about where we’ve come from – geographically and genealogically, emotionally and sentimentally.
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All of that humblebragging and oversharing – and my obsessive checking of it – was driving me insane. Why did I stay so long?
Quite how insidiously some social media had altered my brain wasn’t apparent until I kicked the habit.
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The first authorised biography reveals the Australian poet’s fascinating contradictions, but has less to say on the wilful white amnesia of her work
Generations of Australians have become almost unwittingly familiar with Dorothea Mackellar’s poetic paean to the Australian landscape, My Country.
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What would the first Aboriginal parliamentarian have thought of the voice to parliament? None of us can ever know – not even George Brandis
The first Aboriginal person in federal parliament, the Liberal senator Neville Bonner, would have “hated the idea” of a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous voice to parliament.
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Frank Sinclair’s letters from the front are the earliest known by an Indigenous digger. More than a century later, they – and his family – have been uncovered