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Dec 18, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Mark McKenna
Only months out from a federal election, the challenge of truth-telling in Australia seems as daunting as ever. There is undeniable evidence that the nation has turned away from the three core principles of the Uluru statement from the heart: voice, treaty, truth. Since the defeat of the voice referendum, the government has made it clear that it is walking back from the prime minister’s commitment to implement the Uluru statement “in full”, which he made explicit in his election victory speech.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
msn.com | Frank Bongiorno |Mark McKenna
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
compliancepodcastnetwork.net | Mark McKenna
The Museum of Western Art is dedicated to excellence in the collection, preservation, and promotion of Western Heritage and the education and cultural enrichment of our diverse audiences. The Museum serves as a bridge between the past and the present, ensuring that the legacy of the American West will be preserved for the future. Western Art is as engaging and important as ever.
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
australianbookreview.com.au | Mark McKenna
Forty-three years ago, David Marr – journalist, broadcaster, biographer, political commentator, and public intellectual – published his first book, a sharp, memorable biography of Garfield Barwick, former Liberal attorney-general and chief justice of the High Court. After the appearance of Patrick White: A life in 1991, long considered one of the best biographies ever written in Australia, he might well have followed the more predictable path of the serial biographer.
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Oct 25, 2023 | 
theguardian.com | Mark McKenna
After the hammer-blow on 14 October comes the inevitable attempt to rationalise the result. Confronting the cold, hard fact that 61% of the Australian electorate rejected the constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians and a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous voice to parliament, we look for a rescue narrative of some kind that will enable us to find a fragile patch of common ground.
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Sep 27, 2023 | 
australianbookreview.com.au | Mark McKenna
Forty-three years ago, David Marr – journalist, broadcaster, biographer, political commentator, and public intellectual – published his first book, a sharp, memorable biography of Garfield Barwick, former Liberal attorney-general and chief justice of the High Court. After the appearance of Patrick White: A life in 1991, long considered one of the best biographies ever written in Australia, he might well have followed the more predictable path of the serial biographer.
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Sep 10, 2023 | 
theguardian.com | Mark McKenna |Peter Yu
What can history show us about the significance of the referendum on 14 October? If “history is calling”, whose voices from the past can we hear? In April, the ANU became one of the nation’s first universities to “unreservedly” declare its support for “enshrining an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voice in the constitution”.
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Aug 2, 2023 | 
kymkemp.com | Mark McKenna
According to radio traffic, the Eureka Police Department (EPD) arrived on scene of the 100 block of West Sonoma between California and Pine Streets and requested an ambulance to the scene for an unresponsive subject with stab wounds to the side. EPD requested a second ambulance for a second person on scene and stated they were starting CPR on an unresponsive subject. Sonoma is completely shut down between California and Pine streets while law enforcement officers continue to investigate.
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May 31, 2023 | 
tinyurl.com | Sarah Holland-Batt |Sean Kelly |Mark McKenna |Margaret Simons
These lines come from a poem I love, called “Night”, by Louise Bogan. I memorised them many years ago because I liked their succinct imperative not to fear death. They are also the lines that swam into my mind when I came as close as I have ever come to dying, standing face to face with an adult male grizzly bear in the wilds of Alaska.
I’d been living in New York that year, trying to write my second book.
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May 25, 2023 | 
themonthly.com.au | Tim Winton |Sean Kelly |Mark McKenna |Margaret Simons
Trailing orcas on a whale hunt off the Ningaloo coast provides a visceral thrill and good news for the ecosystem One hot Saturday morning in the spring of 2020, my wife Denise and I meet our mate Andre Rerekura on the western shore of Exmouth Gulf, in Western Australia’s Ningaloo region, to photograph a mob of whistling kites. For a week now, about 20 of these majestic raptors have been wheeling gracefully over a tiny billabong called Qualing Pool. Andre’s a consummate waterman.
