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The death of cricketer Phillip Hughes ten years ago to-day (November 27) was one of several hundred workplace fatalities in 2014. The manner of his...
In 1962, a columnist with the Melbourne Herald noted that a 16th century sculpture of Madonna and Child would be on that year’s Christmas stamp....
For the worst part of 250 years, the United States of America has been a plutocracy. With 800 billionaires in a population of 345 million, the...
Father’s Day is not what it was when first promoted in Australia in 1936 with “Give-dad-a-tie” campaign. Neither are fathers. With one marriage...
Behold, now behemoth … Behold, he drinketh up a river … The Book of Job, 40: 15 and 23. ‘Most of us don’t know 95 percent of what Amazon is...