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A Sense of Place Magazine

Vale Australian Journalist: Derryn Hinch the Human Headline

Andrew Dodd, The University of Melbourne It was May 1999 and Derryn Hinch had been called into the manager’s office at Adelaide’s 5DN. The ratings for his morning program had been tumbling, and after less than a year on air he was told to pack his things. At the time,...

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New Politics

The police state of New South Wales

The Minns government presents its proposed expansion of digital surveillance powers as a necessary response to organised crime, but the big issue isn’t whether NSW Police should investigate criminal networks; it’s whether police should be able to access mobile phones without the judicial safeguards that prevent legitimate investigations from going

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The new US imperialism of AUKUS

Malcolm Turnbull’s description of AUKUS as a “colossal mistake” is becoming increasingly difficult to dismiss. Australia is committing hundreds of billions of dollars to a nuclear submarine program that depends on almost everything going right across three countries, several decades and a succession of governments – while leaving many of

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AUKUS and the Quiet Americans

The former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull’s latest offerings in the AUKUS debate have once again revealed the big contradiction within Australia’s most expensive defence project ever: we are committing hundreds of billions of dollars to an ethereal submarine program which essentially will remain outside of Australian control and create a

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