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Australian patriotism: it's not about war, it's in our love of the land | Paul Daley

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As another federal election looms, we need to keep in mind that violence and violent imagery do not prove passion for a nation

Let’s redefine Australian patriotism.

It’s time, because on the eve of a two-month long federal election campaign, we’re about to be subject to all manner of evocations from public figures about their advancement of the national interest and their love of their country.

Australia's Anzac carnival of commemoration leaves some things not talked about

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It’s beyond time that the country began honestly commemorating its past in conflict, for all its complexities, its good and its considerable bad

Rarely is Australia’s penchant for selective historical memory on starker display than on Anzac Day.

Divided Melbourne: when the archbishop turned St Patrick's Day into propaganda

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Restored 1920 silent film Ireland Will Be Free recalls the anguished debates among Australian Catholics over conscription and Irish independence, led by the legendary archbishop Daniel Mannix and his complex confidant John Wren

Fourteen Australian recipients of the highest Commonwealth military honour, the Victoria Cross, are mounted on grey charges. They lead the carriage of the Irish-born Archbishop of Melbourne, Daniel Mannix, along Bourke Street in Melbourne.

Lachlan Macquarie was no humanitarian: his own words show he was a terrorist

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The New South Wales governor, arguably the most eulogised of colonial leaders, ordered the massacre of Indigenous men, women and children at Appin

Australia has long revered the fifth governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, as an enlightened humanitarian who brought civilisation to the colony.

But it’s time for a rethink.

AFL must not flinch after anti-Muslim banner unfurled in the name of Collingwood

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Collingwood fans have a right to be angry after the United Patriots Front conflated their ignorance and vile hatred of Islam with their beloved club

I am a Collingwood supporter.

That’s a difficult thing to be today.

Related: AFL banner furore: Islamic councils praise 'quick action against bigotry'

It's not 'politically correct' to say Australia was invaded, it's history | Paul Daley

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The latest manufactured outrage from the Daily Telegraph and other rightwing groups ignores the experience of the continent’s Indigenous people

So, the arbiters of political correctness gone mad have apparently decided we need a quick top-up lesson on Australian Indigenous history. Or something.

It’s not quite clear what, precisely, they think.

Indigenous treasures, briefly on loan to Australia, are about to be taken away – again

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While some people have valued the opportunity to reconnect with the long lost objects of their ancestors, others are heartbroken that their sacred cultural property will soon be returned to the British Museum

Henrietta Fourmile Marrie stands at the podium, a diminutive figure at a lower corner of the cavernous stage.

National Library's Trove: a great digital democracy under threat

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Australian writers, historians and amateurs for whom the digital aggregator is an invaluable resource have taken to social media to defend their treasure from budget cuts. Their simple message: #fundTrove

Walking along some of the beaches of north-east Arnhem Land you’ll notice, if you stop to look at your footprints, little terracotta shards.

Murrumu: one man's mission to create a sovereign Indigenous country inside Australia

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In 2014 the former press gallery journalist officially ‘quit’ Australia to form his own nation in Queensland. Almost two years later he is the Yidindji foreign minister, and it’s clear he’s doing much more than making a symbolic point

It’s not easy being a foreign affairs and trade minister when travelling overseas from the country most of us know as Australia is as complicated as it has become for Murrumu Walubara Yidindji.

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