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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.
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A statue of Lachlan Macquarie calls him a ‘perfect gentleman’ but 205 years ago he ordered the massacre of Dharawal men, women and children
Two hundred-and-five years ago British soldiers, following orders of the fifth governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, massacred Dharawal men, women and children at Appin on the outskirts of today’s Sydney.
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A statue of Lachlan Macquarie calls him a ‘perfect gentleman’ but 205 years ago he ordered the massacre of Dharawal men, women and children
Two hundred-and-five years ago British soldiers, following orders of the fifth governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, massacred Dharawal men, women and children at Appin on the outskirts of today’s Sydney.
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Next time you’re urged to ponder how far we’ve come as a nation, remember the 474 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have died in custody
If every life is equal, so too is every death.
Of course, this proposition is laughable. Not least in Australia, where the long arm of colonisation reaches far into the federation and its continued oppression and maltreatment of First Nations people.
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Next time you’re urged to ponder how far we’ve come as a nation, remember the 474 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have died in custody
If every life is equal, so too is every death.
Of course, this proposition is laughable. Not least in Australia, where the long arm of colonisation reaches far into the federation and its continued oppression and maltreatment of First Nations people.
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It’s a time to be together, but without the urgency and freneticism that Christmas brings
On the eve of the Easter holiday I always feel as if the Australian tempo takes a welcome shift down a gear or two.
The year is just a quarter over. Already there is always an intense weariness in the air. This year, like the last, you can add to that a liberal dose of trepidation.
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The imposition of the track on a sacred women’s site would be in contempt of local Indigenous sensibility, culture and millennia of Aboriginal history
Given the global outrage and corporate shame stemming from the destruction of precious Indigenous heritage at Juukan Gorge, you’d think any organisation poised to damage sacred Aboriginal property might be experiencing a little cautionary soul-searching.
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The Labor leader’s assertion of the historical ‘holes in national memory’ around frontier violence and resistance is commendable and important
Ever since Australian troops fought under a British flag in the disastrous Gallipoli invasion and retreat, mainstream national politics has been beset with historical memory loss.
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Influential business people associated with the AFL club say now is the time to bring in 21st century skills and experience
Elizabeth Proust grew up in Sydney as a proud supporter of what was then the Balmain Tigers rugby league club.
When she moved to Melbourne and married Brian Lawrence in 1972, she passionately adopted his Collingwood Football Club as her own. As a Collingwood supporter and member she has been dismayed by the episodic flare-ups of racism against Indigenous people and those of colour that have shamed her club.
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Eddie McGuire’s response to the Do Better report shows he has not learned, and should be replaced
As gold rush money fuelled the ever-expanding Melbourne of the 1850s, remnants of Wurundjeri people, decimated by disease, starvation and violent dispossession, were still to be found on a vast expanse of woodland and pasture down by the Yarra in Abbotsford.