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With boastful displays and arms maker sponsors, the memorial falls ever shorter of duty to commemorate the toll of war
Checking in on Anzac Day commemorations at the Australian War Memorial today? If so, besides paying appropriate respect to our service personnel, perhaps consider just how contorted the official memorialisation of war has become in this country.
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From the forgotten bustle of the airport to feverish bad photos of the harbour below, an interstate trip brings fierce joy
I never imagined that an interstate trip could be so exciting.
But when your world shrinks the way it has since the pandemic hit Australia two-and-a-bit years ago, and then slowly expands, only to contract and gradually open up yet again, the most prosaic experience attains new meaning.
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The steel city once knew him as a migrant made good who contributed a great gift to the arts. But one man has been digging into the true identity of Bob Sredersas
You can read the original article here: ‘I am Bob. Just Bob’: could a Wollongong folk hero have had a Nazi past?
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In this episode of the Book It In podcast, Paul Daley speaks to Chelsea Watego about why she says ‘fuck hope’ and why she wants to take her book, Another Day in the Colony, to Aboriginal readers in prisons
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Spectre of potential Nazi links with Wollongong gallery’s bequest raises questions about whether we can ever accept capacity of people to be brutal and do good
Steel city Wollongong, and its art gallery boasting one of regional Australia’s most prized collections, is wedged in the middle of an unenviable moral quandary over the apparent Nazi past of its prime benefactor.
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Craig Sherborne’s novel The Grass Hotel tells the story of caring for a mother who is declining with dementia. He talks to Paul Daley about his own complex upbringing – one that was affectionate, but also filled with stilted and misunderstood expressions of care
The Grass Hotel by Craig Sherborne is published by Text Publishing
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Paul Daley speaks to Chelsea Watego about why she says ‘fuck hope’ and why she wants to take her book, Another Day in the Colony, to Aboriginal readers in prisons
Another Day in the Colony by Chelsea Watego is published by University of Queensland Press.
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The steel city knew him as a migrant made good who contributed a great gift to the arts. But one man has been digging into the true identity of Bob Sredersas
Nobody had reason to pay undue attention to Bronius “Bob” Sredersas after he arrived in Wollongong in 1950, one among thousands of postwar European migrants who helped grow the Illawarra’s Port Kembla steelworks into the biggest in the Commonwealth.
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If First Nations families fear and distrust the police, the reasons can be found in the past as well as the present
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The building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge was a powerful symbol of where Australia thought it was going – and who it was leaving behind
In early 1924, when work began on arguably this country’s most defining built structure, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Australia was torn between self-identifying as a loyal outpost of empire and one of the globe’s most innovative new democracies.