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Richard Hil

Pearls and Irritations

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No more puerile ‘debates’ about the Gaza genocide, please

I’ve had a hard day’s night watching an excruciating, made-for-Fox-TV showdown between political scientist Norman Finkelstein and the former...

28.12.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Richard Hil

History repeats in the most chilling of ways

Earlier this month, the Sydney Morning Herald published a cartoon by the irrepressible Cathy Wilcox. I gazed at the image for a long time. My first...

11.12.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Richard Hil

A necessary reckoning [ready]

The premeditated bloodletting in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and many other largely forgotten parts of the world speaks hauntingly of the...

28.11.2024 6

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Are we locked in a dangerous illusion?

​Two weeks ago, I was at a public event in Northern NSW listening to five speakers reflect on the state of the climate and what we might do about...

17.11.2024 4

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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 2

Pearls and Irritations

Richard Hil

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 1

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Richard Hil

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 3

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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...

04.08.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Richard Hil