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3 weeks ago | 
smh.com.au | David Halliday
Contributor April 2, 2025 — 7.00pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The history of fatherhood is, too often, a history of absence. Being a dad was something I always aspired to do well, but what that meant in practice was never quite clear. After my son was born, I did what most fathers do: I kept working.
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3 weeks ago | 
watoday.com.au | David Halliday
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2 months ago | 
eurekastreet.com.au | David Halliday
‘Underworld figure shot in our basement carpark at 10.30 this morning,’ My sister wrote to the family WhatsApp thread. ‘Cops everywhere. All ok. Just thankful I wasn’t down there like I planned to be. (Was going to drive to the gym at 10.15, glad I was lazy!).’ She lives in Preston, where Sam ‘the Punisher’ Abdulrahim was murdered under the fluorescents of an underground carpark while walking to his car with his girlfriend, who presumably lives in the same block as my sister.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
eurekastreet.com.au | David Halliday
SUPPORT RESPECTFUL CONVERSATIONS IN A TIME OF DIVISIONWe need no reminding of the depth of the division that exists in our Australian community. It's there every time we go online, turn on the TV, open the newspaper. Our politics is focused on point-scoring, personalities, and name-calling across party lines. The media, for the most part, don't help, driven by the 24-hour news cycle and the pursuit of advertising dollars into a frenzy of click-bait and shallow sensationalism.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
eurekastreet.com.au | David Halliday
In Australia, the dream of homeownership is slipping further out of reach for many. As house prices soar, nearly half the nation finds itself locked out of the property market.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
eurekastreet.com.au | Ken Haley |David Halliday
As 2024 hurtles to its end, the urge to forecast what lies ahead is as tempting as it is tenuous. It is idle to wonder if 2025 will plunge us into a major global conflict when we cannot even be sure about the next upheaval to come out of the Middle East, or whether the United States will face a constitutional crisis that makes the events of January 6 seem restrained. What we can say is that, despite centuries of the most astonishing technological advances, human nature remains unchanged.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
eurekastreet.com.au | David Halliday
No matter where you are, you’ve been noticing the heat. Globally, killer heat waves are becoming longer, hotter, and more frequent. In Europe alone, the heatwaves of 2022 claimed over 60,000 lives. Jeff Goodell has been a voice of authority and urgency on climate issues for over two decades. As a contributing editor to Rolling Stone, Goodell has written four books on energy and climate.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
eurekastreet.com.au | David Halliday
DH: As Australia’s most beloved author, your name conjures up images of ocean surf and wild, remote beaches. Your love of rural Australia — the people, the wildlife, the water and the land — has resonated through your work and through audiences for four decades. You said Ningaloo is a place that ‘exhilarates you like no other’. Readers may know your conservation work there twenty-odd years ago.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
eurekastreet.com.au | David Halliday
David Halliday: You wrote The Careless State in 2022, a searing indictment of privatisation and deregulation of Australian social policy. For those unfamiliar, what’s the current state of affairs when it comes to social services? Mark Considine: It depends on which service we’re talking about. Up until the 1980s, governments supported social services either by direct delivery, or by providing various kinds of funding to churches and other nonprofit organisations.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
eurekastreet.com.au | David Halliday
In the 17th century, Eton College boys faced a peculiar mandate: every morning, over breakfast, they were compelled to smoke a pipe of tobacco. This was a supposed safeguard, with tobacco smoke mistakenly believed to ward off the ‘miasmas’ thought to spread plague. And any teens rebelling against this regimen — whether through refusal or insufficient puffing — were met with a sound whipping.
