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Protesting immigration
Posted on September 10, 2025 Leave a Comment
Immigration protests in Australia
High Country
Posted on November 18, 2024 Leave a Comment
The first Tuesday in November, a Melbourne holiday for an iconic horse race, is an opportunity for those of us not champing at the bit for race day to take Monday off and enjoy a four-day weekend. Hello high country, the Victorian Alps, a 400-kilometre drive from home. A rule about trekking in hill country […]
Cape Woolamai
Posted on August 12, 2024 Leave a Comment
Cape Woolamai, Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia
The Tall Man by Chloe Hooper
Posted on June 4, 2024 Leave a Comment
A book that removed the bandage from modern Australia’s festering sore. In 2004 on Palm Island in Australia’s deep north, 36-year-old Cameron Doomadgee was arrested for swearing at a white police officer. Forty minutes later he lay dead in the jailhouse. Police said he tripped, but his ruptured liver could not be attributed to a […]
Gerry Roberts 
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