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The Latest From Peter Ryan
A nation worthy of the name can have but one authentic day to celebrate and affirm its unity. Here's a heartening impression drawn from the last time I marched: Asian families whose little kids bore crayoned messages on sheets of white card. 'Thank you' was what they said
Apr 25 2018
7 mins
“The unforgotten Brian Fitzpatrick”, of whom I wrote last month, […]
Oct 01 2015
9 mins
He died almost exactly half a century ago, but don’t […]
Sep 01 2015
8 mins
I remember precisely my “meeting” with General Sir John Monash, […]
Apr 01 2015
10 mins
In high civilisation’s sophisticated art of the “deadly putdown”, do […]
Mar 01 2015
5 mins
An Unqualified Success: The Extraordinary Life of Allan Percy Fleming […]
Jan 01 2015
8 mins
The blast of public attention that followed the death of […]
Jan 01 2015
8 mins
In Melbourne alone, three parliamentary seats are held by Labor courtesy of Muslim votes. This is change on a tectonic scale, and that makes the official refusal to acknowledge the inclination to violence of Islam's more ardent strains very worrying indeed
Dec 23 2014
9 mins
I hope, in my piece last month, I didn’t gush […]
Nov 01 2014
7 mins