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From applying makeup in the rear-view mirror to watching cat videos on the phone, the morning commute is a parade of appalling driver behaviour
The photograph didn’t lie. There I was in the driver’s seat of my car, stopping at the lights, with one hand on the wheel, the other on my lap and holding my mobile phone.
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With the lights turned off, an audience at a Tim Minchin concert united for a song, sheltering from the inhumanity and division outside
Given humankind’s recent showcasing of its infinite capacity to inflict misery upon itself, joy sometimes seems so elusive as to be borderline extinct.
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It’s political leaders who declare wars – but most are reluctant to grapple with the human and moral cost
It seems inappropriate that politicians have centre stage at moments when Australia and many other countries stop to contemplate what is, now more than ever, the imponderable human cost of war.
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In the NSW southern highlands, Horse Aid is working to ‘un-soldier’ former defence personnel and ‘un-race’ thoroughbreds