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Greece in a new deal to bring back 161 ancient treasures from US
Greece has struck a deal for the eventual return from a US billionaire’s private collection of 161 ancient Greek artifacts dating from more than 4,500 years ago. Greek Government spokesman …
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What has Albanese got right? Reform and Boredom
This week, Anthony Albanese and his cabinet completed their first hundred days in government with his approval ratings remaining high. At the beginning of August, Newspoll found that Mr Albanese …
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Father’s Day – time to memorialise
Time creates chasms in memory. Mnemonic landscapes become difficult to define and past lives become increasingly opaque. On this Father’s Day when my son gave me my presents, they became …
Red night
As the night wore on, the temperature in Athens was hot, with lots of wind. During the night, I couldn’t sleep well because dogs in my neighbourhood kept barking since …
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Diatribe: Ionikon
In 1911, 11 years prior to the Asia Minor Catastrophe, Alexandrine poet Constantine Cavafy penned the hauntingly beautiful poem «Ιωνικόν» or Ionian. At that time, it would have impossible to …
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The new millennium has been pretty tough on the Liberal Party in Victoria
Since 1992, only two Liberal Party opposition leaders have won state elections in Victoria. Only Jeff Kennett scraped together a majority of seats in Victorian Parliament to be re-elected in …
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Diatribe: When Homer serenaded Stalin
If you want to really roast someone these days, social media offers ample opportunity to do so in a multitude of ways. If you want to do so without the …
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A Burden on The Earth: Greek Myth and climate change
I grew up in Southern Maine in the United States, spending most of my childhood outside in the pine forests during the 1980s and 1990s. As an adult, I now …
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Scott Morrison did not trust his team. But voters do not trust politicians.
If current trends continue, fewer than 10 per cent of Australians will trust their politicians and political institutions by 2025, according to research conducted by Democracy 2025. Sadly, this research …
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Diatribe – Winter ruminations
Ignatios, who goes among the populace under the soubriquet of Nate, is a proud Peloponnesian. His ancestors hail, he tells me, from one of the many villages in which, the …