Ten years after The Dry, the bestselling author treads similar ground, but her story of townsfolk dispossessed by a coalmine ...

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Visiting the wide-ranging country electorate of Sussan Ley, the leader of a party in desperate need of winning seats in the distant big cities ...

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Larissa Behrendt is a Euahleyai/Gamillaroi woman, and Laureate Fellow at the Jumbunna Institute of Indigenous Education and Research, University of Technology Sydney ...

There is an uncritical but flawed assumption that Aboriginal people are unquestionably Australian republicans. Professor Marcia Langton, responding to republican ridicule of the pomp and circumstance ...

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Trent Parke, ‘Geraldton, WA’, 2006, type C print, 114 x 145 cm, edition of 8 + 2AP. Image courtesy the artist and Michael Reid Sydney + Berlin A reflection on the process and burden of creating an ...

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