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Read more about the article From Julian to Barnaby, and points between

From Julian to Barnaby, and points between

June 30, 2021 Opinion by Greg Ray. All praise the Member for Rinehart Thanks to Peter Lewis for this lifelike portrait of Barnaby and friend Oh Barnaby. If the National Party is the tail that wags the Coalition dog, then where on the tail do we find Barnaby Joyce? At the head of the tail, of course. You might need to draw a picture to locate that precisely. But really, all you need to know about the Nationals in this day and age is that they are a shady rump of the former Country Party, still…

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Read more about the article Before email there was V-Mail

Before email there was V-Mail

In World War 2, Allied troops sent and received a lot of mail. So much mail it became a headache for military authorities to handle the huge quantities. But nobody wanted to impose overly strict limits on mail, since being able to communicate with loved ones at home was a massive prop to the morale of troops. In 1941 the British came up with a solution. The idea was to photograph letters, send the negatives to an area close to the intended recipients and then print them out again. The reduced-size negatives took up a lot…

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Read more about the article Church Walk Park: a Newcastle inner city haven

Church Walk Park: a Newcastle inner city haven

For decades, as I drove most days along King Street to work in Newcastle city, I'd stop at the lights at Darby Street and admire the wild-looking piece of steep land on the south eastern side of the intersection, wondering who owned it and hoping it would never be torn apart. Although I admired this little piece of land, I never bothered to find out anything about it, and I never tried to walk through it, assuming it was probably a private garden. Recently I discovered that this lovely spot is actually a public park. Its…

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