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  • AUSTRALIA

    'I will stand with you'

    • Barry Gittins
    • 30 October 2024
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    In 1968, Peter Norman won Olympic silver, but his lasting legacy was a stance for justice on the podium alongside Tommie Smith and John Carlos, where he wore an Olympic Project for Human Rights badge in solidarity. Yet his quiet protest led to lifelong exclusion at home, recognition arriving only posthumously.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Turnbull's magic budget bowl is a fantasy

    • Joe Zabar
    • 07 December 2017
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    Many of us have grown up with Norman Lindsay's classic tale of the magic pudding; the pudding bowl that never empties no matter how often the pudding was eaten. It seems that the magic pudding bowl has been borrowed by the federal government, if the proposed new business and income tax cuts are anything to go by.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Peter Norman movie/book giveaway and Matt Norman interview

    • Staff
    • 14 July 2008

    Eureka Street has five prize packs to give away, each containing a double pass to see the movie Salute, plus a copy of the Peter Norman biography book A Race to Remember. Plus, listen to Tim Kroenert's interview with Salute director and Peter Norman's nephew, Matt Norman

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Lee Beasley, Kathryn Page, Matthew Lamb, Steve Gome
    • 14 May 2006

    Reviews of the books In Tasmania; Women and media: International perspectives; Havoc, in its third year and The Tomb in Seville.

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