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Read more about the article The new cold war gets warmer, again

The new cold war gets warmer, again

The big guns are out, and they are aiming towards Asia and the Pacific. Sure, the current hot proxy war between the US Empire and Russia happens to be in Europe but the big target is China, and the cold war to prevent its rise is warming by degrees with every day that passes. For Australia – America’s “unsinkable aircraft carrier” and its “deputy sheriff” in the Pacific Region – the signs are all very ominous. The commandant of the US Marine Corps, General David Berger, was in Australia this week, urging the government to ramp…

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Read more about the article Who are these Excelsior girls?

Who are these Excelsior girls?

Excelsior! I might have known Longfellow had something to do with it. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I think of him as a kind of American Tennyson: the pair of them are corny balladeers whom I can’t help liking, at least a little bit, just on the strength of their word music. Epic poets of the Victorian era, pumping out metred rhyming stanzas packed with sentiment and imagery that was just right for its time. Mind you, I rate Tennyson a few leagues ahead of Longfellow just on the strength of In Memoriam, where I can dip and…

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Read more about the article Art from disaster: Ron Morrison’s last exhibition
Ron's submerged home, showing the peak flood level (left); Ron as a young man at The Maitland Mercury newspaper office; some flood-damaged items from Ron's collection.

Art from disaster: Ron Morrison’s last exhibition

When a monster flood ripped through the Northern NSW town of Lismore and surrounding districts in 2022, veteran photographer Ron Morrison lost almost all his possessions and his health took a severe hit. Forced from a comfortable ground-floor flat beneath his son's home in the riverside town of Woodburn into respite care in a nursing home, Ron - already frail - struggled with the situation. Ron's wife Liz had already been moved into care before the flood, due to slowly encroaching dementia. Liz Morrison in the ground-floor apartment she shared with Ron, before it was destroyed…

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