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'No' voters didn't reject Aboriginal advancement. Rather, they vetoed the sort of 'advancement' Yes backers had in mind
Oct 15 2024
11 mins
Were those who pushed the Voice genuinely serious, the Aboriginal Industry would be the first thing to be addressed.
Oct 14 2024
4 mins
The ABC's claims of Trump's 'falsehoods' turn out to be falsehoods themselves. But correct the record? No way
Oct 14 2024
18 mins
The Budawangs
All that day scored by the undergrowth,
which was as much within ourselves
as the whipping and sly entanglements
and a cavernous bush occluding any sky,
we followed a map of a little sound,
of trickling water until dark
and slept when it seemed to slip
from us.
Then in the morning,
like a nest hidden among thorns,
three feet away,
a pool of still water,
self-contained like wisdom,
calmly held our faces
as we drank.
Russell Erwin
It seems the cardinal virtue in the modern Christianity is no longer charity, nor even faith and hope, but an inoffensive prudence
Oct 13 2024
4 mins
Many will disagree, but World War III is too great a risk to run by involving ourselves in a distant border conflict
Sep 25 2024
5 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
Aug 20 2024
23 mins
