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November, 1942. The eve of Thanksgiving in the United States. It’s a balmy night in the Brisbane CBD, and four mates are chatting on Adelaide Street. The only indication of the maelstrom engulfing the globe is the set of uniforms they are wearing. Three Australian soldiers and one United States Army private. The exact details…
On a sunny afternoon, hundreds of patrons sit at the bars and restaurants lining Sydney Harbour. However, the seagulls are quick to swoop in, stealing a chip and ruining an otherwise pleasant moment. Luckily at Circular Quay, Opera Bar and several other seagull hotspots, an unlikely crew provides a special kind of security. A team…
When Australia’s team for its opening World Cup game against Türkiye was announced, there were two stunning omissions from the starting line-up. Captain Mat Ryan, a veteran of more than 100 caps for the Socceroos, and vice-captain Jackson Irvine, who has played 80 times, were on the bench. Stay across the latest news, analysis and…
Counterterrorism police in Scotland are investigating a number of “violent” attacks in Edinburgh that appeared to target Muslim people. Five men — two aged 22, and others aged 24, 27, and 39 — sustained various injuries during the attacks in the city’s north and west, with three requiring hospital treatment. None of the injuries were…
“We are being taken for bloody fools.” If there’s one sentence that sums up Pauline Hanson’s attitude to Australia’s place in the world, this probably is it. With One Nation running red hot in the polls and posing a serious challenge to the incumbent parties, there’s more and more scrutiny on what its policies would…
The US and Iran have officially signed an agreement to end their months-long war, sending a collective sigh of relief through global economies this week. But across Tehran and other Iranian cities, news of the agreement sparked protests, rather than relief. Hardline supporters of the regime mobilised against the country’s negotiators, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and…
There was not much left of the bodies of the people killed at Forrest River. Charred fragments of bone, and small piles of teeth. The men and women had been shot and burnt in large makeshift bush ovens. Ronnie Morgan grew up hearing the stories of what happened. “My great-grandparents said they went out there…
When Koteka Wenda stumbled across an AI-generated video of her circulating on social media, she was shocked. In the video, she was speaking out against a documentary that has become the subject of fierce debate. “The resemblance of my likeness is so sinister,” she told the ABC. “I felt like me and my people were…
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Thirteen thousand words were spoken during Pauline Hanson’s marathon press club appearance this week. Almost nobody, bar a few political obsessives, will have heard them all. Instead, most people will engage with the speech the way they engage with most political content: on their phones, in the form of bite-sized clips. Professional campaigners know this,…