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Memorial Drinks for Dr Stephen Edwards

Memorial Drinks for Dr Stephen Edwards

For anyone who knew him, there are memorial drinks in Sydney at the El Rocco Room corner Brougham and William St Kings Cross from 6.30 to 9.30 pm on Tuesday December 9!  Stephen passed away after a long struggle with cancer at the Sacred Heart Hospice late last month. More details can be found from his dear friend, poet Charles Freyberg. You can ...

The Long Drive: Goodbye Road

Michael Gray Griffith There is so much space out here – it’s as if the gods left before they could bother with mountains, valleys, or grand forests. You could misplace an entire civilisation inside it. We did, and they are still lost. On the beaches near Eucla – cliffs you have to climb down to reach – lie mounds of broken shellfish and the ...
Criminals are weaponising vulnerabilities in Australia’s construction industry to steal millions of dollars

Criminals are weaponising vulnerabilities in Australia’s construction industry to steal millions of dollars

Australian Federal Police Assistant Commissioner Cyber Command Richard Chin has announced that the Australian Federal Police are tracking a concerning rise across the industry in what are known as Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams. These involve cyber criminals impersonating a business or its employees via email to deceive victims into ...
It took just 60 years for red foxes to colonise Australia from Victoria to the Pilbara

It took just 60 years for red foxes to colonise Australia from Victoria to the Pilbara

Sean Tomlinson, University of Adelaide and Damien Fordham, University of Adelaide To a newly-arrived red fox, the abundant rolling grasslands and swamps of Wadawurrung Country, around what is now called Port Phillip Bay, must have seemed like a predator’s paradise. This landscape was filled with small native marsupials and birds, and free of ...
American Antidepressants Increase 130% for Teen Girls, Drop 7% For Boys. Watch Out Australia.

American Antidepressants Increase 130% for Teen Girls, Drop 7% For Boys. Watch Out Australia.

By Robert McFillin: Brownstone Institute In Australia, where mental health challenges have surged post-pandemic — with one in seven people (around 3.9 million) now taking antidepressants, one of the highest rates globally — the stark U.S. trends highlighted in this republished Brownstone Institute piece hit especially close to home. Here, ...
Literary Critic A.D. Hope called a Australia’s Nobel Laureate Patrick White’s classic novel The Tree of Man ‘verbal sludge’. New books celebrate these rivals

Literary Critic A.D. Hope called a Australia’s Nobel Laureate Patrick White’s classic novel The Tree of Man ‘verbal sludge’. New books celebrate these rivals

Tony Hughes-d’Aeth, The University of Western Australia A.D. Hope and Patrick White are towering figures of 20th-century Australian culture. Few cast larger literary shadows over the postwar period. White, with his dizzying, monumental novels and Nobel prize, holds pride of place. But Hope, as a critic, poet and academic, exercised a considerable ...

Memorial Drinks for Dr Stephen Edwards

Memorial Drinks for Dr Stephen Edwards
For anyone who knew him, there are memorial drinks in Sydney at the El Rocco Room corner Brougham and William St Kings Cross from 6.30 to 9.30 pm on Tuesday December 9!  Stephen passed away after a long struggle with cancer at the Sacred Heart Hospice late last month. More details can be found from his dear friend, poet Charles Freyberg. You can ...

The Long Drive: Goodbye Road

Michael Gray Griffith There is so much space out here – it’s as if the gods left before they could bother with mountains, valleys, or grand forests. You could misplace an entire civilisation inside it. We did, and they are still lost. On the beaches near Eucla – cliffs you have to climb down to reach – lie mounds of broken shellfish and the ...

Criminals are weaponising vulnerabilities in Australia’s construction industry to steal millions of dollars

Criminals are weaponising vulnerabilities in Australia’s construction industry to steal millions of dollars
Australian Federal Police Assistant Commissioner Cyber Command Richard Chin has announced that the Australian Federal Police are tracking a concerning rise across the industry in what are known as Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams. These involve cyber criminals impersonating a business or its employees via email to deceive victims into ...

It took just 60 years for red foxes to colonise Australia from Victoria to the Pilbara

It took just 60 years for red foxes to colonise Australia from Victoria to the Pilbara
Sean Tomlinson, University of Adelaide and Damien Fordham, University of Adelaide To a newly-arrived red fox, the abundant rolling grasslands and swamps of Wadawurrung Country, around what is now called Port Phillip Bay, must have seemed like a predator’s paradise. This landscape was filled with small native marsupials and birds, and free of ...

American Antidepressants Increase 130% for Teen Girls, Drop 7% For Boys. Watch Out Australia.

American Antidepressants Increase 130% for Teen Girls, Drop 7% For Boys. Watch Out Australia.
By Robert McFillin: Brownstone Institute In Australia, where mental health challenges have surged post-pandemic — with one in seven people (around 3.9 million) now taking antidepressants, one of the highest rates globally — the stark U.S. trends highlighted in this republished Brownstone Institute piece hit especially close to home. Here, ...

Literary Critic A.D. Hope called a Australia’s Nobel Laureate Patrick White’s classic novel The Tree of Man ‘verbal sludge’. New books celebrate these rivals

Literary Critic A.D. Hope called a Australia’s Nobel Laureate Patrick White’s classic novel The Tree of Man ‘verbal sludge’. New books celebrate these rivals
Tony Hughes-d’Aeth, The University of Western Australia A.D. Hope and Patrick White are towering figures of 20th-century Australian culture. Few cast larger literary shadows over the postwar period. White, with his dizzying, monumental novels and Nobel prize, holds pride of place. But Hope, as a critic, poet and academic, exercised a considerable ...