Historian Jenny Hocking writes, "Although the Home Office insisted that the timing of this draconian Bill [the Public Order Act],
which cut sharply across the right to political protest, so close to the coronation was purely coincidental, it was of course no such thing..."
The new NSW govt needs to decide whether it's going to continue to allow its public schools to be used a missionary fields by an increasingly defensive religious establishment.
Bioethicist Margaret Somerville argues some people will play up the uncertainty surrounding the referendum on the Voice to create "serious disruption and harm",
whichever way the vote goes. "A No vote would cause immediate and irreparable harm — not only to Indigenous Australians, but to Australian society as a whole..", she writes.
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Farewell to the beautiful medieval city of Ghent... and hello to the absolutely charming city of Middelberg in the Netherlands!
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