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Richard Hil

Pearls and Irritations

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It’s the silence that kills

“Do you agree that Israel has the right to defend itself?” This question, so often and repeatedly put by journalists, is irritatingly banal....

20.10.2024 10

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The slow strangulation of truth

Over the years I’ve learnt to chew and walk at the same time. It’s taken a while, but I think I’ve mastered it. Being able and willing to...

12.10.2024 10

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There’s no escaping the wrongs done to Indigenous people

Patricia Karvelas’s article reflecting on the Labor government’s ‘timid’, ‘pragmatic’, ‘realistic’ change of course in pursuit of...

06.08.2024 7

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Why I’m not in the mood for the Olympic hurrah

The latest Essential poll published in Tuesday’s online Guardian revealed that a whopping third of those polled would, if given the chance, vote for...

04.08.2024 10

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Hostages have been freed, who cares about the Palestinian unpeople?

It’s been a month since I relocated to a new town. It’s been traumatic. The emotions have run wild and the somatic reactions strong. At the...

12.06.2024 7

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Why we must never stop exposing cant and hypocrisy

To witness repeated atrocities around the world is hard enough. To observe wilful slaughter, when it’s openly supported by nations claiming...

02.06.2024 20

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Murder by any other name

Writing on the heels of Stuart Rees’s recent article in P&I, A Plea for Gaza: ‘Remember humanity & forget the rest’, and as a participant in...

07.04.2024 9

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Why are you so afraid to speak out??

The brilliant, compassionate peace scholar and activist Stuart Rees, a regular contributor to this publication, constantly searches for ways of...

06.03.2024 6

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Terra solitarius – the true cost of young peoples’ loneliness

We’re sleepwalking toward social catastrophe. Perhaps we’re there already – terra solitarius. Almost anywhere you care to look – research...

21.02.2024 20

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Are we letting big tech outsource our humanity?

The biggest problem with Artificial Intelligence will be the way we use it, writes Dr Richard Hil. We’ve long been in a “mirror world” of...

03.02.2024 10

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So why the secrecy?

Last month, Chris Bowen, the Climate Change Minister, delivered the second Annual Climate Change Statement to the federal parliament. The Minister’s...

10.12.2023 8

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