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Read more about the article Australia Day lament for the common wealth

Australia Day lament for the common wealth

January 26, 2022 Opinion by Greg Ray Australia Day seems a bit irrelevant to me this year. The whole country right now feels like a hijacked airliner. People are squabbling about legroom and locker space and meal choices and window seats and steward service. Wannabes are pushing for upgrades to business class or – dare we even dream? – first class, while nobody seems to have the faintest idea where the flight is heading. I feel like we are hostages, only most of us don’t want to admit it. We want to pretend that whoever is…

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Read more about the article It’s hard to get excited about 2022

It’s hard to get excited about 2022

December 19, 2021 Opinion by Greg Ray 2021 has been a grinding, dispiriting year for many of us. For a start, we’ve been on the Covid-19 pandemic roller-coaster, with its ups and downs of lockdowns, vaccinations, new variants and constant arguments between business advocates and health authorities about what we ought to do. Depressing because of the pandemic being used as a profit-booster by unscrupulous pharmaceutical corporations and as a divisive social lever by unscrupulous media corporations and unprincipled political puppets. And deeply troubling as an example of how our present model of rule-by-corporation really works…

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Read more about the article Colonial photographer Charles Kerry’s Aboriginal images, in his own blunt words

Colonial photographer Charles Kerry’s Aboriginal images, in his own blunt words

"The decadence of the aboriginal races of Australia and the absolute certainty of their utter extinction in the Colony of New South Wales (and that at an early date) lend a mournful and pathetic interest to the movements of the few scattered remnants which are all that remain to tell of the past glories of the powerful tribes who ruled this old weather-beaten continent until the advent of the pale face a few generations back." That's how businessman and photographic entrepreneur Charles Henry Kerry introduced his article, in the December 1903 issue of English magazine The…

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