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Back to SearchJohn Menadue critiques Australia's media and our relationship with the United States
John Menadue has been at the heart of Australian public life for over fifty years, working for the Whitlam, Fraser and Hawke governments. He oversaw the effective end to Australia's White Australia P…
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Are architectural replicas bad taste?
From Dresden to Notre Dame, rebuilding or replicating in architecture, is never a neutral act. The art of the rebuild is about politics, national identity and sometimes, even just plain mimicry.
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Two years behind bars, Imran Khan remains defiant
Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan has spent two years behind bars, sentenced to 14 years on corruption charges. Khan says he's the victim of political attacks, and is refusing to cut a dea…
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Ian Dunt's UK - Keir Starmer at the White House and will Putin come to the table over Ukraine?
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer joined President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and European leaders to discuss pathways to peace in the Ukraine-Russia war. Plus, could Irish no…
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History's most unfortunate surnames
The tradition of inheriting your parents' surname is not that old, particularly in the English-speaking world. Surnames only started appearing in England after the Norman Conquest in 1066, and were u…
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Most of Tuvalu applied for a new Australian visa; why?
Last month, around 80% of Tuvalu's population balloted for a new Australian visa. The 'Falepili Mobility Pathway' is a response to the erosion of Tuvalu's territory caused by rising sea levels; each …
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Laura Tingle on the Trump-Putin-Zelenskyy negotiations
Laura Tingle assesses the meeting in Alaska between Presidents Trump and Putin, where Ukraine President Zelenskyy fits in the negotiations, why European leaders are locking arms with him and what hap…
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Last letters of French resistance fighters, and what they tell us about living
The last letters of WWII French resistance fighters, before their executions, became important for French morale-boosting and Allied propaganda. The letters themselves show us people reckoning with w…
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The huge rise of evangelism in Brazil - seeded by American preachers
A new Netflix documentary investigates the evangelical forces behind Jair Bolsanaro in Brazil, and how the seeds of the movement were planted in the 1970s by American televangelist Billy Graham. The …
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Journalists Hanna Rosin and Lauren Ober on seeking truth in Trump's America
Acclaimed US journalists and podcast collaborators with The Atlantic Hanna Rosin and Lauren Ober join David Marr in-studio to discuss the MAGA women who love Trump, the state of the media in post-ins…
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