Seems to be the new beer and chardonnay.
You'd never know it was an Aussie budget.
Seems to be the new beer and chardonnay.
You'd never know it was an Aussie budget.
The Pope had a lot to say about sexual abuse when he was in America recently. It’s now being reported that there’s “pressure” on him to repeat his apology to victims specifically in the Australian context, when he’s out here for World Youth Day. I have no doubt Benedict will, and I suspect the pressure in this instance isn’t needed. Read more »
The dense booklet, which was overseen by former prime minister John Howard, describes the uses of the stump-jump plough, the emergence of the Heidelberg school of art, the location of Phar Lap’s heart and depicts Australia’s first governor, Captain Arthur Phillip, as “firm but humane”. Read more »
It has often been said that as Australians we have a predilection for remembering and even celebrating our failures. The ABC does a lot of remembering at these times. This year there have been a couple of segments covering an event that may eventually take over from ANZAC in our consciousness, an event that occurred 90 years ago on the third ANZAC Day. Read more »
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The Big Brother narrative takes yet another snarky turn. As Eye on Big Brother notes, all the glee on the panel show tonight (Big Mouth or whatever) was directed at the hapless Brigitte. Read more »
I don’t recall much about Anzac Day from my primary school years, and for a number of reasons my high school recollections of Anzac Day are very much coloured by having read Alan Seymour’s play “One Day of the Year” in Grade Eight - a play which captured a range of ambiguous reactions to this commemoration. The themes are well summed up in this review by Stephen Dunne of a 2003 performance in Sydney: Read more »
During World War I, 1914-1918, the 'Great War', the most important battleground was the 'Western
Front' in France and Belgium. More than 290,000 Australians served in
this theatre of war in the the Australian Imperial Force in battles such as those at Fromelles, the Somme,
Bullecourt, Messines, Passcshendaele, Dernancourt and
Villers-Bretonneux. Of those who served, 46,000 were either killed in action or died of their wounds. Read more »
Conservative and strongly pro-Israel Professor Bill Rubenstein has had a letter published in the April edition of Quadrant which ends with the following observation: Read more »
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