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Declassified documents show Australia assisted CIA in coup against Chile’s Salvador Allende

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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.

The plan to bury Mungo Man and Mungo Lady pains some traditional owners – and the man who found them

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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


‘Loving ourselves is an act of defiance’: tender and heartbreaking letters to fathers and sons

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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.

Covid, Twitter, and Dan Murphy’s opening hours: Peter Doherty on his not-so-restful retirement

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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.

Morrison says troops died ‘for a great cause’ in Afghanistan. To quote a grieving father, that’s bullshit | Paul Daley

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It’s time we told the truth about ‘the fallen’ of our wars, and stopped hiding behind their memory

Scott Morrison is shamelessly audacious to claim Australian service personnel died for “a great cause” in this country’s foremost 21st century moral-military failure – Afghanistan.

Morrison says troops died ‘for a great cause’ in Afghanistan. To quote a grieving father, that’s bullshit | Paul Daley

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It’s time we told the truth about ‘the fallen’ of our wars, and stopped hiding behind their memory

Scott Morrison is shamelessly audacious to claim Australian service personnel died for “a great cause” in this country’s foremost 21st century moral-military failure – Afghanistan.

Watching sport has brought so much emotional light in a time of pandemic darkness | Paul Daley

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But reading Brandon Jack’s memoir is a timely reminder that human pain and anguish are never far below the surface of elite performance

Never have I found so much solace in the Australian football codes as during this latest ongoing Sydney lockdown.

Having grown up in Melbourne AFL is my main game. But during Sydney lockdown I’ve also relished NRL, not least Origin 111 – played on the Gold Coast in front of actual barracking, cheering, exuberant fans to deliver so much unanticipated emotional light through my screen in a time of pandemic darkness.

Watching sport has brought so much emotional light in a time of pandemic darkness | Paul Daley

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But reading Brandon Jack’s memoir is a timely reminder that human pain and anguish are never far below the surface of elite performance

Never have I found so much solace in the Australian football codes as during this latest ongoing Sydney lockdown.

Having grown up in Melbourne AFL is my main game. But during Sydney lockdown I’ve also relished NRL, not least Origin 111 – played on the Gold Coast in front of actual barracking, cheering, exuberant fans to deliver so much unanticipated emotional light through my screen in a time of pandemic darkness.

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