How the monarchy became a bad joke in Australia
The Guardian, February 1996 A town like Elizabeth – Australia’s love affair with the British royal family is over. And so is its affinity with Great Britain, the mother country no longer wanted or even...
View ArticleTravelling in Victoria, Australia
It is early morning on the Murray river up on the northern border of the state of Victoria. Every so often, a gang of bright white cockatoos comes crashing out of the tree tops, screaming abuse at each...
View ArticleThe Australian Thatcher
Imagine for a moment that a newly-elected right-wing government announced that in order to attract lucrative business to London, they had decided to stage an international Grand Prix motor race in the...
View ArticleThe stolen children
When Archie Roach was a small child in the early 1950s, he lived in a place called Framlingham, a short row of tin shacks and little brick houses which stood on a dusty, dry plateau near the edge of a...
View ArticleGood and old – the hotel that dares to be different
The future is not what it used to be. Fifty years ago, people could imagine a world that simply became better and better in every way. It was progress. It was bound to happen. Of course, it didn’t....
View ArticlePleading for her death – the moving letters of a woman in search of euthanasia
Anna Knight knew what she wanted. She had always been a strong character and when she realised just how ill she was – when she had survived three operations in only 10 weeks and emerged with a bowel...
View ArticleMelbourne doctors challenge state with euthanasia confession
Seven Melbourne doctors have written an open letter to the state premier, Mr Jeff Kennett, openly declaring that they have helped terminally ill patients to die – a criminal offence which carries a...
View ArticleAustralia’s porn merchants screw up the law
Some years ago in California, a man calling himself Bill Majors took a young woman with long blonde hair to his house, stripped her, cuffed her hands behind her back, chained her ankles to a mechanical...
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