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Now is the right time to limit the government’s power to send Australian troops to war | Paul Daley

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If Peter Dutton and his like want to conduct war games to enhance their pre-election prospects, perhaps they should play a few rounds of paintball

As a desperate Morrison government recklessly spruiks what it insists are the prospects of armed conflict with China, now is exactly the right time to introduce a legal curb on the federal executive’s unilateral capacity to commit Australian troops to war.

Tara June Winch and Thomas Mayor on Indigenous masculinity

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Dear Son is a searing anthology of letters by First Nations fathers and sons. Two of Australia’s best authors discuss the tenderness and strength of Indigenous masculinity, in conversation with author and journalist Paul Daley

You can read Thomas Mayor’s recent opinion article here: I write while my children steal cars and rob houses: the awful human cost of racist stereotypes

Introducing Book It In: Tara June Winch and Thomas Mayor on Indigenous masculinity

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Book It In, Guardian Australia’s latest podcast, explores what books teach us about the world we live in. Dear Son is a searing anthology of letters by First Nations fathers and sons. In this episode, two of Australia’s best authors discuss the tenderness and strength of Indigenous masculinity with Paul Daley

‘It brings dignity to every one of them’: inside the reburial of Indigenous bones and restless spirits

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Stolen, collected and traded Aboriginal remains will return to their country in South Australia. This is the story of how they were taken, and those who will bring them to rest

For weeks Kaurna elders Aunty Madge Wanganeen and Uncle Major “Moogy” Sumner have been preparing the skeletal remains of their ancestors for reburial on the outskirts of Adelaide.

Should politicians like Peter Dutton suck up Twitter’s hot-gives and -takes or pursue vindication? | Paul Daley

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Australia’s defence minister was not too busy to see through a defamation case against an unemployed, crowdfunded refugee advocate

You’ve got to wonder how Peter Dutton, one of the most wealthy and overstretched members of federal parliament, fathoms up the wherewithal to sue for defamation an unemployed, crowdfunded refugee advocate who called him something nasty on Twitter.

Here’s why on Remembrance Day politicians should be kept away from the commemorations | Paul Daley

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Look out for talk of the drums of war, and Australian leaders summoning the sacrifices of the dead to justify their strategic decisions

As the commonwealth stops for a minute’s silence on Thursday to remember its military personnel killed in the line of duty, beware any politician who gauchely evokes the memory of war dead with allusions to the beating drums of another supposedly imminent conflict.

The extraordinary Aboriginal leader whose story the Australian War Memorial should be telling | Paul Daley

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Yorta Yorta man William Cooper made powerful appeals against Indigenous military service for an empire that had stolen Aboriginal land

In recent years the gatekeepers of Australian Anzac mythology have gone to lengths to embrace the stories of “black diggers”, Indigenous servicemen who fought for British empire and the commonwealth in our wars.

Alan Tudge is dead wrong. Anzac should be contested – as it always has been | Paul Daley

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He has been banging on with these dreary, condescending, cliched cultural themes, each instalment a little more ridiculous

Ever since the warmonger Billy Hughes urged Australian men to go and “fight for White Australia in France” during the first world war, Australian politicians have been banging the drum on the supposed sanctity of Anzac Day.

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