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Is the dollar worth a war?

Opinion by Greg Ray. May 11, 2026 We are all being dragged, slowly but surely, into a global war. Shouldn't we be asking why? And if we think we know why, shouldn't we be asking if those reasons justify the known and unknown costs? War is a big deal. Ask any of the unfortunate people whose countries have been subjected to violent assault from one direction or another over the past several decades. War can take away everything you care about. It can strip away the thin veneer of civilization that we who still have it…

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A mock-royal, poking fun at Prime Minister Robert Menzies for his proposed new Australian currency. The note appears to have been produced by students of the University of NSW to raise money for Aboriginal scholarships.

Royal debate over Aussie dollar

Next time you spend an Aussie dollar you might stop to consider that, if former prime minister Robert Menzies had gotten his way, you'd be handing over a "royal" instead. Menzies was famously pro-monarchy and pro-Britain. In 1963, welcoming the Queen in Parliament, he gave his much-quoted speech in which he said: Ma’am, there are a lot of interesting people in the world who like to discuss the Monarchy. There are clever people in the world, at least so I understand, who have discovered that all sorts of things ought to be done to the Monarchy,…

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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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