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Who killed Cecilia Devine?

Inside the cover of Newcastle musician Cecilia Devine's 2017 CD album, Liberty, these words are printed: I dedicate this album to two cities: New York, NY, USA (for pulling me apart) & Newcastle, NSW, AUS (for putting me back together). Reading those words was the first I ever knew of Cecilia. I'd picked up a CD, more or less at random, in an op shop in the Newcastle suburb of Wallsend. A little intrigued (partly because I had recently been to New York myself), I bought the album and, when I got home, looked up the…

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Epic or Epstein? It’s POTUS fury.

Some wags have been calling Donald Trump's attack on Iran "Operation Epstein Fury". It's a nice play on his chosen name of "Epic Fury" and his evident desire to make people stop talking about his millions of mentions in the files associated with the late child sex trafficker and presumed Israeli intelligence asset Jeffrey Epstein. The basic accusation behind the jocular renaming is that Trump attacked Iran to divert attention from his long-time association with the incredibly well-connected and mysteriously funded sex offender. Another variation wonders if perhaps Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (a man Trump…

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Read more about the article The Hunter River “sex-drug” drama of 1964

The Hunter River “sex-drug” drama of 1964

In the early decades of the colony of New South Wales, somebody planted hemp in the Hunter Valley. They were probably thinking that, if the plant thrived, then they could make money selling it to make rope and canvas which was much-needed for sailing ships, in particular. This long-ago farmer could hardly have suspected that in about a century-and-a-half, the crop - by that time naturalised along the river bank between Singleton and Maitland - would stir up a national moral panic among citizens worried that a shocking "sex drug" was being plucked for free from…

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