History

Julia Baird

Tide of history must change to swim with Nobel penguins

Julia Baird The locals call it Penguin Mountain. Each year, on December 10, on the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death, residents of Stockholm witness the awarding of the world's most prestigious prizes in...

Tony Taylor

Stop panicking: Aussie history can be saved

'We must stop talking about Australian history as if we were parents encouraging children to eat their greens.'

Tony Taylor With a new approach, our nation's stories will be welcomed in schools.

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Natural History illustrations are as rare as they are old.

SMH news, supplied image from the State Library of NSW, rare historic drawings.

Mitchell library, in Sydney, has aquired many early Australian natural history illustrations. 6th June 2011. Photos by Tamara Dean and supplied.

Paul Sheehan

iCash flow: Apple aims for a trillion and history

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Paul Sheehan It is slender and seductive. It has helped create a company larger than we have ever seen before. It is an itch that millions of people did not know they needed to scratch.

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Catherine Deveny

Hey Hey it's history

Catherine Deveny Turn Channel Nine into a television museum? It's one already, Daryl.

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Richard Ackland

Look to history for lesson on legal fees

Richard Ackland It's nice to see a touch of the old putting its mark on the new year. Would you believe it, a group of big wigs from the lawyer trade unions has come out in opposition to a reform floated within the...

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John Watson

Damning of sport sounds alarm on law

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John Watson We should beware the spread of powers that weaken the rule of law.

Peter Craven

Lincoln to shine amid the glitter

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Peter Craven What a Hollywood dream of cinematic distinction the Oscars are.

Paul Daley

Anzac and the bravery after

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Paul Daley The centenary of Australia's involvement in World War I is still a year and a half away. But politics - with its instinctive, reflexive appeal to national sentiment - is well and truly gearing up...

Two thumbs up for Sydney's 'ugliest building'

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Jesse Adams Stein Widely regarded as the ''ugliest building in Sydney'', the UTS tower is usually the subject of derision and complaint.

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Rubenstein/Ben Moshe

Modern migrant's loyalty is an asset to the world

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Kim Rubenstein and Danny Ben Moshe It is staggering that with one albeit very serious case overseas, that of the Ben Zygier suicide, Ben Saul (The Age, 20/2/13) wants to turn back the clock of globalisation and multiculturalism.

Alan Stokes

Footy needs more 'us' versus 'them'

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Alan Stokes Please don't tell anyone, but I feel for Ben Barba and Canterbury Bulldogs supporters.

Sam de Brito

True friendship: when you can say the unsayable

Sam de Brito One of the great quirks of friendship is you know you're on solid ground with someone when you can start hanging crap on them.

Martin McKenzie-Murray

Camera drones: technological advance or Orwellian spies?

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Martin McKenzie-Murray It was not until the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 that the world began to grasp the diabolical scale of repression in East Germany.

Marcia Langton

New generation ripe with promise

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Marcia Langton Australia's mining wealth has had varied impacts on our economy and the incomes of Australians. It is clear the result has increased income levels for a large majority.

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Romantic ideas fail the green test

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Marcia Langton I had been searching for the quintessential statement by a wilderness campaigner in opposition to Aboriginal interests to illustrate the problem that I have referred to in earlier lectures: the...

Michael Shmith

The silent brigade needs to be heard

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Michael Shmith Lend me your ears or borrow mine. It is Friday morning at The Age, and this is what I am hearing.

John Birmingham

Foot in mouth, Jules pulls finger out

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John Birmingham What was Julia Gillard thinking? I'll tell you what she was thinking: ''Omigod, no, Tim, not the one about the Asian doctor lady finger, nooooooo ...''

Simon Jenkins

Truth on the silver screen? The picture can be a little fuzzy

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Simon Jenkins Films like Zero Dark Thirty seem happy to falsify facts in the name of art.

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Barney Zwartz

Finally, a bishop brave enough to break ranks and act against child abuse

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Barney Zwartz Jose Gomez has set a stunning example of what the church should be doing.