Submitted by Paul Daley on
Right now there is the same type of hope that was in the ether in 2000. But reconciliation must be more than a week – or a word
This year Australia’s National Reconciliation Week went with the theme: More than a word. Reconciliation takes action.
Yes, the need for meaningful action is urgent and hard to fault.
Submitted by Paul Daley on
The erosion of the national archives is indicative of Australia’s increasing militarisation of history and culture
What should be preserved in national memory? What ought to be allowed to perish and disappear from consciousness?
Submitted by Paul Daley on
The erosion of the national archives is indicative of Australia’s increasing militarisation of history and culture
What should be preserved in national memory? What ought to be allowed to perish and disappear from consciousness?
Submitted by Paul Daley on
Mark McKenna’s short, elegant book Return to Uluru gazes inwards to the continental interior, metaphor for a nation’s yearning
Occasionally a piece of writing will capture us and turn our thoughts inwards on to how we connect to the geographic, spiritual and emotional places where we live.
It will spin our minds around and force us to confront existential questions about belonging to a continent of many nations.
Submitted by Paul Daley on
Mark McKenna’s short, elegant book Return to Uluru gazes inwards to the continental interior, metaphor for a nation’s yearning
Occasionally a piece of writing will capture us and turn our thoughts inwards on to how we connect to the geographic, spiritual and emotional places where we live.
It will spin our minds around and force us to confront existential questions about belonging to a continent of many nations.
Submitted by Paul Daley on
Conservationists could make a case for saving a gorgeous bird but preserving its prosaic habitat was, in the 1920s and 30s, a bridge too far
Few but the most dedicated ornithologist will know anything about Australia’s Paradise parrot.
That is because it has the dubious distinction of being the only mainland Australian bird marked “extinct” by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Its premature vanishment almost a century ago, meanwhile, remains prescient today when it comes to how best to protect other threatened Australian avian species.
Submitted by Paul Daley on
Conservationists could make a case for saving a gorgeous bird but preserving its prosaic habitat was, in the 1920s and 30s, a bridge too far
Few but the most dedicated ornithologist will know anything about Australia’s Paradise parrot.
That is because it has the dubious distinction of being the only mainland Australian bird marked “extinct” by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Its premature vanishment almost a century ago, meanwhile, remains prescient today when it comes to how best to protect other threatened Australian avian species.
Submitted by Paul Daley on
This hawkish rhetoric denotes a new type of alpha-masculinity from the federal government to things defence and diplomatic
Who’s ready to go over-the-top with Mike Pezzullo?
Well, not so much with, perhaps. More like at his command (don’t he just wish!) – in a do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do kind of way.
Submitted by Paul Daley on
This hawkish rhetoric denotes a new type of alpha-masculinity from the federal government to things defence and diplomatic
Who’s ready to go over-the-top with Mike Pezzullo?
Well, not so much with, perhaps. More like at his command (don’t he just wish!) – in a do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do kind of way.
Submitted by Paul Daley on
Private Ted Ryan stands as a talisman for today’s personnel, whose masters have deployed and redeployed them, to their enduring detriment
This Anzac Day our politicians will again be front and centre of commemorations for Australia’s 62,000-plus first world war dead and those who died in all this country’s other conflicts.