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Spring at Barren Grounds
The plateau at Barren Grounds, on the Illawarra escarpment above the south coast of NSW, is the southern remnant of a much larger sheet of Middle Triassic Hawkesbury Sandstone, laid down more than 200 million years ago as the Sydney Basin filled with river and coastal...
Triumph of the Whales
The humpback whale migration up and down the east coast of Australia is one of the great natural wonders of the world. As November settles over the east coast, the last of the humpbacks are heading south. Mothers with calves, the late travellers, slip past the...
Jacinda Ardern and Sydney University: Peak Cognitive Dissonance
Jacinda Ardern remains one of the most polarising figures in recent New Zealand political history, widely disliked at home for reasons that have little to do with the glowing international coverage of her “kindness” and “empathy.” During the COVID years her government...
The Most Under-Discussed Political Reality Of Our Time
Video reading by Tim Foley: The most significant political reality of our time is also the most under-discussed political reality, and it can be summed up as follows: There are a whole lot more of us than there are of them, and we can force
IT’S TIME TO ‘WALK IN THE SPIRIT’
You will enjoy this powerful and inspirational page turning novel about the lives of six very different people. Its fascinating pages will reveal to you that they are Muslim, Jew, Christian, Indigenous, Confucian, LGBTI. In varying ways and at different times they...
READING A SIGNED EVERALD BOOK IS A VERY PLEASANT WAY TO ENJOY YOUR CHRISTMAS BREAK.
Nothing better can happen to you during the holiday season than to spend a couple of hours every day in a cool spot under a shady tree reading an entertaining book that has a page-turning message to renew your soul. It won’t surprise you to discover that I...
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Who gets protected, and who pays the price?
A memorial to the 18,457 children killed in Gaza should hardly need metal detectors, a restricted entry process and armed guards to ensure the event is free of incident. The Shoalhaven City Council is far removed from a real war zone – and a zone of genocide – but its
Albanese’s mid-term test: Labor’s struggle to restore trust and ward off One Nation
A government can survive an unpopular prime minister but it becomes more vulnerable when voters stop believing it can improve their lives. For Anthony Albanese, the big question is whether Labor can turn its parliamentary strength into changes people can actually feel.With Labor and Pauline Hanson’s One Nation level on
Serbia, Brazil and Israel votes: Is the far right losing ground?
Authoritarian politics thrives on the appearance of inevitability: the strongman who cannot be defeated, the opposition can never be allowed to govern, and voters have nowhere else to go. Election results in Serbia and Brazil have challenged that narrative, raising a question with consequences that go far beyond their borders: