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The South Australian government has just intervened to pause a restructure of the state’s biggest museum. Why?
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Our leaders weave grand, often poetic, narratives around death on the battlefield – and then tragically we let it happen again
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My lifestyle is so attuned to that of my pets I sometimes feel our identities are fused
One of my dogs, Olive, turned five years old this week and, while every minute for her holds unfettered joy, love and promise, the birthday was burnished with a little melancholy for me.
Five!
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The words evoke her presence in a house she never entered. Dad, conversely, feels far more absent – he wasn’t one to write
Some things you only learn with the hindsight of loss and the significant passage of time.
One of them for me is that photographs of family and friends who have died fail to stir my memories of them in quite the same way as encounters with their written words.
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Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on
Nonfiction, Thames & Hudson, $34.99