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The Society of Jesus mourns the death of Father Gerald (“Gerry”) O’Collins SJ AC. Fr O’Collins died in Melbourne on Thursday 22 August at the age of 93. He had been a Jesuit for 74 years and a priest for 61 years.
August 31, 2024
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How could it not be the Jews? That was the immediate surmise of, let us be frank, noxiously aggressive bigots and anti-Semites. Tayah’s restaurant was in Caulfield, the heart of Jewish Melbourne, there was a synagogue nearby.
August 30, 2024
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Yemen’s Houthis have been enjoying all sorts of fun and mischief lobbing missiles at passing ships, so far incurring only the slightest of lettuce-leaf slaps from the Biden administration. So much for Pax Americana.
August 27, 2024
5 mins
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The final scene of Some Like it Hot leaves Joe E. Brown’s intentions and Jack Lemmon’s response somewhat up in the air.
August 24, 2024
2 mins
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Following up on her Quadrant Online report about the Family Court and the presumption of innocence so often denied men in troubled relationships, Bettina Arndt turns a critical eye on Movember.
August 23, 2024
3 mins
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Evidence that the world has gone mad grows harder to ignore. From the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, these thoughts on what the queer perspective can bring to nuclear war.
August 22, 2024
2 mins
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The Democrats have just begun their convention in Chicago, the hope being that anti-Semitic protests don't become riots, Steven Spielberg's stage-management goes off without a hitch and -- fingers tightly crossed -- Kamala Harris doesn't get too close to a microphone and go off script.
August 20, 2024
4 mins
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Now that the Olympics have demonstrated how reality knocks gender theory into a cocked hat when a 'transwoman' athlete meets a biological woman in the ring, reader Simone writes to note a recent National Institute of Health study.
August 17, 2024
5 mins
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George Thomas: My school had quite an influx of young […]
August 14, 2024
1 mins
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Perth-based blogger Rebekah Barnett has been following and reporting the outrageous treatment of Melbourne doctor Jereth Kok, who was suspended under emergency provisions by the medical regulators in 2019 after two anonymous complaints about his social media posts.
August 10, 2024
3 mins
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I was there, in New York and close to Ground Zero when 19 wicked men drove their hijacked planes into the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and, thanks to a passenger revolt Allah must not have foreseen, a Pennsylvania paddock.
August 2, 2024
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