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A Sense of Place Magazine

Australia: The Great Silence. The Power Of Now.

Michael Gray Griffith: Café Locked Out “I’m a paramedic,” he said. “Forty years. And do you know how many cases of myocarditis I saw in that time? Zero. Pericarditis? A few times, not many. But now—it’s everywhere.” “I’m a paramedic,” he said. “Forty years. And do you...

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MY SISTER VIVIENNE AND ANNE OF GREEN GABLES

On Friday evenings Helen and I enjoy a couple of relaxing hours watching a television movie. Two days ago we chose ANNE OF GREEN GABLES on ABC iview. It has recently been released by Canada Television. Our choice was made as the book played a significant role in the...

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WHEN YOU REACH AGE EIGHTY IT’S TIME TO START WRITING BOOKS.

On the day I celebrated my 80th birthday I decided to become an author who would write best sellers. I had written a few books about fund raising in my earlier life, as well as a biography for my family, but no serious novels that could find a place on shelves of book...

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“WALKING WITH THE MAN” IS NOW AN AUDIO BOOK.

Many of my friends and followers don’t read books, they listen to them. They do so for many reasons, but mainly its because they just don’t have time to sit down and read. So they enjoy listening to books while they ride on buses trains ferries planes or while driving...

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Reflections on the Unifying Anti-Racist Research and Action Symposium

Readers please be advised this article contains mentions of racism and historical crimes such as massacres against First Nations peoples. Last week I attended the Unifying Anti-Racist Research and Action Symposium hosted by QUT’s Carumba Institute. I know there has been a backlash from individuals, politicians and entities that were

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Far from benign: the US aid industrial complex

The US aid program began in earnest in the early stages of the Cold War, with an intention to beat off the contenders from the Soviet bloc in the postcolonial world. President Harry S. Truman proposed, in his 1949 inaugural address , “a bold new program for making the benefits

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DEI is killing people

Wow. After all those years of seeing discrimination against men becoming ever more blatant and intense, who would have thought that one crazy dude in the White House could threaten this highly successful feminist enterprise. We will have to see how it all pans out, but Trump’s decision to eliminate

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New Politics

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Managing Trump, not Closing the Gap, dirty election deals

This episode of New Politics is an in-depth exploration of the latest twists and turns in Australian politics, beginning with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s much-anticipated phone call to US President Donald Trump over the looming 25 per cent steel and aluminium tariffs. We discuss the economic implications for Australian exports,

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The ABC of Peter Dutton and the sacking of a journalist

In this episode of the New Politics podcast, we discuss the return of Parliament in 2025 and examine the Labor government’s decision to shelve the Environmental Protection Agency, alongside the stalled gambling advertising legislation that now looks unlikely to proceed before the upcoming federal election – or ever. We also

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