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Tweet Why don’t we celebrate Australia Day on a day all Australians can get behind. David Donovan suggests February 23 would be a more appropriate day. This year I’m not celebrating Australia Day. I love Australia with a mighty passion,...
Tweet It isn’t necessary to fund chaplains in schools, says Graham Jackson; that money would be better spent teaching our children the Myth and Legends of the First Australians. I WAS 16 when I left Albury to do an Arts degree in Canberra. The...
TweetThe reaction to the Tent Embassy incident shows that Australian racism and intolerance is alive and well; managing editor David Donovan says it’s time for Australians to grow up. “The only thing necessary for evil to flourish is for...
TweetWhy don’t we celebrate Australia Day on a day all Australians can get behind? David Donovan comments. Alcohol fueled xenophobia: another ugly side of Australia Day I’m not excited about Australia Day. I love Australia with a mighty passion,...
Tweet Early female convicts transported to Australia have had their reputations unfairly tarnished by history, says Riaz Hassan. Some years ago while researching for my book on suicide in Australia, I thought it would be interesting to begin...
Tweet A convict sent out over a 10-shilling theft left a proud legacy, writes descendant and senior correspondent Barry Everingham. Matthew James Everingham On January 26, 1788, a young London-born solicitor’s clerk, all of 18 years of...
TweetTHE HONEYMOON’S OVER JULIA – WHAT PART OF SORRY DON’T YOU GET? by contributing editor-at-large Tess Lawrence By Tess Lawrence | Contributing editor-at-large TREATY NOW, TREATY MA, TREATY MA’AM I am not going to take...
Tweetby Australian historian Brad Webb In the early nineteenth century, Britain embarked on a social engineering scheme that saw Australia become the first colony to build a society on the labour of convicted felons. With growing poverty and...
Tweet As Premier John Brumby signals that his government will take action in Victoria to advance Australia becoming a republic as part of his re-election campaign, a new book was launched by the Hon. Lindsay Tanner MP in Melbourne on June 29,...
Tweet The Barmy Army like to let us know that Australia once had convict colonies. The English cricket team will be arriving in Australia later in the year and with them will come the marauding ‘Barmy Army’. MANY PEOPLE enjoy their...
