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The woman who solved crimes with birds
Author Chris Sweeney tells the remarkable story of Roxie Laybourne, the Smithsonian ornithologist who became the nation's leading expert in feather forensics. Laybourne investigated thousands of aero…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
What's behind Germany's Gaza protest crackdowns?
In a new documentary for Al Jazeera, Jewish-Australian journalist Antony Loewenstein return to his ancestral home, Germany, to investigate how the country’s impulse never to repeat the horrendous ant…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
The power of collective memory
Collective memory is storytelling on a massive scale. Every nation, every community, has a master narrative—the ‘official’ story about who they are, who they aren’t, what has happened to them, and wh…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
The rise of the Chinese far-right in America
The San Gabriel Valley on the outskirts of LA is the largest 'ethnoburb' of the Chinese diaspora in the United States. Long beset by poverty, issues with affordable housing, environmental and public …
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
What does the end of Meanjin say about Australian culture?
After 85 years, Melbounre University Publishing has shut down Meanjin on "purely financial grounds". The decision sees the end of the platform and publication that gave us the term "cultural cringe" …
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Papua New Guinea, 50 years after gaining independence from Australia
Papua New Guinea was an Australian territory until 16 September 1975, when the country gained independence. Few Australians even know that we were the colonial rulers of Papua New Guinea. Are we too …
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Bruce Shapiro's USA: Trump's "Department of War" takes on drugs, Harvard's court win, and grand jury dissent
After Trump sent federal forces into Washington, DC, those troops and police began to charge individuals with federal crimes. But an extraordinary source of civilian pushback has emerged: grand jurie…
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Gaelic was a dead language in early Australia; why?
Since Europeans first landed in Australia, the country has been a net importer of languages. Not all of those languages make it, and Gaelic was one of the early languages that died out. What did the …
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Modi's move: why India is the key to China’s global leadership ambitions
Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi met with Chinese President Xi Jinping for the first time on Chinese soil in seven years at the recent Shanghai Cooperation Summit in Tianjin. Burned by Trump’s 50 p…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Anna Henderson's Canberra: Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and the non apology, ISIS brides and the jetsetting Albanese
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price's comments on migration continue to cause headaches for the Coalition. Opposition Leader Sussan Ley is in damage control, and senior Liberal Alex Hawke, has encouraged the NT…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago