Following the October 7 Hamas invasion of southern Israel and the atrocities committed on the day, pro-Hamas/Palestinian demonstrations and protest about Israel has engulfed the Western world especially on university campuses. Jewish students have been attacked, vilified and made to feel unwelcome on campus. The protests have spread to affect the Jewish community at large [...]
Following the October 7 Hamas invasion of southern Israel and the atrocities committed on the day, pro-Hamas/Palestinian demonstrations and protest about Israel has engulfed the Western world especially on university campuses. Jewish students have been attacked, vilified and made to feel unwelcome on campus. The protests have spread to affect the Jewish community at large [...]
Deborah Conway is one of Australia’s most iconic singers. In her recently released Book of Life, she exposes the world of 1980s post-punk. Her career took off from Melbourne to national and international fame. She has had spectacular highs and even some lows and today enjoys the fruits of the successful singing and personal partnership with [...]
Nicholas Hasluck’s book Print and Prize: Travels in the Commonwealth (Connor Court Publishing) provides an account of his time as Chair of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. In post-colonial discussions – such as the contest over the Voice in Australia in 2023 – Hasluck found that works of fiction by entrants for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize [...]
Frank Brennan SJ, a supporter of the Voice concept, now believes the 2023 referendum was a disaster. He also believes that many Australians still hope there may be a prospect of future constitutional change but not with the process that was adopted and not with the wording that was proposed in 2023. Frank Brennan has outlined [...]
Frank Brennan SJ, a supporter of the Voice concept, now believes the 2023 referendum was a disaster. He also believes that many Australians still hope there may be a prospect of future constitutional change but not with the process that was adopted and not with the wording that was proposed in 2023. Frank Brennan has outlined [...]
April 1951. After ten months of fighting, the Korean War hung in the balance. A single Australian battalion, backed by Kiwi gunners and American tanks, had dug in on a hilltop overlooking the Kapyong Valley, north of Seoul. Together with a Canadian battalion on a nearby hill, they were all that stood between Mao's army [...]
Natasha Hausdorff is a barrister in London and a Director of UK Lawyers for Israel. She holds law degrees from Oxford and Tel Aviv Universities and was a Fellow in the National Security Law Programme at Columbia Law School. Natasha Hausdorff previously worked for Skadden Arps, in London and Brussels and clerked for the President [...]
With the launch of Frank Knopfelmacher – Selected Writings, the life and work of one of Australia’s leading anti-communists was celebrated in Melbourne and Sydney. In 1965, Frank Knopfelmacher, Czech born sociologist and psychologist, was the centre of a heated academic controversy when a unanimous recommendation by an academic selection committee to appoint him to [...]
With the launch of Frank Knopfelmacher – Selected Writings, the life and work of one of Australia’s leading anti-communists was celebrated in Melbourne and Sydney. In 1965, Frank Knopfelmacher, Czech born sociologist and psychologist, was the centre of a heated academic controversy when a unanimous recommendation by an academic selection committee to appoint him to [...]
