The Vatican has the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith. Australian schooling has AERO. New, not very important but very symptomatic, the Australian Education Research...
A couple of years ago a friend asked me to select a poem to read at her wedding. She was marrying her beloved girlfriend and there...
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Early in A Political Memoir, as Robert Manne evokes how “the post-Enlightenment dream of Germany as a home for Jews” so completely corrupted around his maternal...
Generous windows in the timber-framed entrance spill winter sun across a patterned floor. Light bounces off the glazed tiles lining the walls. Pendant lightfittings dangle from...
Media Watch, ABC’s long-running scourge of shoddy journalistic practices, is back for another year with Linton Besser as its eighth resident host. This was an opportunity...
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An election had become necessary after a coalition government, led by a hapless Social Democrat, failed to agree on a major funding issue and collapsed. During...
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