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Keywords: Hiroshima

  • AUSTRALIA

    Change of era, or era of change?

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 13 March 2025

    What feels like turbulence in the present often reveals itself, in hindsight, as the rupture of an era. From the fall of Rome to the upheavals of today, are we witnessing mere disruption, or the twilight of an old order?

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Japan poems

    • Geoff Page
    • 12 February 2025

    Where do cultures start, we ask? What forgotten emperor thought up walls without graffiti? I’m told now that it’s not that simple. Japan when under martial law was famous for its litter.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Reshaping Remembrance

    • Stephen Alomes
    • 11 November 2024
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    On Remembrance Day, we’re called to confront war’s real toll — not just on soldiers but on civilians, families, and especially children. From WWII’s devastated cities to today’s ravaged Gaza, can we reframe our commemorations to reflect the universal, harrowing cost of war beyond national myths?

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Requiem in a dawn light

    • Peter Craven
    • 24 April 2024
    1 Comment

    For those born in the wake of World War II, war stories seemed the greatest fun on earth. But the pity of it is monumental and we come to take it – if not for granted – then at least as part of the fabric of minds that had met with all that was terrible in human experience and all that called out for reverence.  

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    The unyielding spirit of Uncle Kevin Buzzacott

    • Michele Madigan
    • 18 April 2024
    7 Comments

    An Arabunna man, Uncle Kevin Buzzacott devoted himself to the protection of that delicate, glorious country of north eastern South Australia with its Great Artesian Basin’s ancient waters threatened by the succession of powerful mining companies operating Roxby’s Olympic Dam.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    When war becomes personal

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 10 April 2024
    5 Comments

    Our attitudes to war change drastically when it becomes personal. The killing of Zomi Frankcom, together with other members of the Charity organisation World Central Kitchen, made the war between Israel and Hamas personal. It has led many people to see the destruction of Gaza and its people as not only regrettable but intolerable.

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