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The motive for the downing of MH17
The International Court that presided over the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine on 17 July 2014 delivered its findings in November 2022. The Court, the District Court of the Hague, determined that the plane was brought down by Russian separatists with a surface-to-air missile fired from a unit known as a…
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The South Adelaide Football Club – A History of supporter groups
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The South Adelaide Football Club – Geoff Baynes and the late 1970s
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Perrottet’s ‘Adelaide card’ in the NSW election
For the people of South Australia, one point of interest in the upcoming NSW election concerns Dominic Perrottet’s repeated comparisons between Sydney and Adelaide. In Perrottet’s view, Sydney’s greatness is best measured against Adelaide because the South Australian capital leads the country in one respect only – dysfunctionality. His comments to this effect, which include…
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The sliding scale of Australian boganhood
There has been some high-brow analysis of Australian boganhood recently. The 2022 compilation of essays, Class in Australia, where writers ‘take class as their analytic focus, bringing empirical and conceptual light to the ways in which class offers a relational and structural understanding of inequality, social and cultural relations, and affective modalities’, includes the essay,…
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An inquiry into the death of Swift’s printer, John Harding
The full-length paper can be freely accessed at the hyper-link here:
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Australia needs the more authentic Albo
The personal and political transformation of Anthony Albanese since he came to office in May has been something to behold. On the personal level, he has shaken off his lowly-born tags like few before him. The tough western Sydney teenager now has the appearance of a learned Cambridge don. Then, politically, he has shown a…
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Is Angus Houston too close to China?
My interview about this article with Alan Jones on ADH TV on 14 September 2022 can be accessed here – the interview begins at 28:40 on the programme. And a follow-up by Alan in the opening of his show the next night is here). On Wednesday 3 August the Albanese government announced that a review…
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What does China know about MH370?
Australia deserves some credit for its role in the search for MH370. It was a flight connected with the interests of China more than any other country, in that its intended destination was Beijing, it first met with trouble whilst over the militarised South China Sea, and of the 239 passengers and crew who lost…
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An alternative South Australian perspective
An edited version of this article was published on Flat White – here. The Flat White article, ‘A South Australian perspective’, written by Ross Eastcoast, will win him plenty of admirers in Sydney and Melbourne. Of all of the articles written by journalists who seek popularity by slipping a boot into Adelaide or South Australia,…
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