Colonialism, Convicts and Country: How the British Empire shaped my Australian Story
Kate Carruthers Reflection on how colonialism shaped the modern world and my Australian family story, built on both convict and migrant histories and Indigenous dispossession.
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Sir Nicholas Winton: saviour, people smuggler, hero?
The sad news of the death of a great and humble man came out overnight: “Sir Nicholas Winton, who organised the rescue of 669 children destined for Nazi concentration camps,…
Australia and the secret sauce of western civilisation?
Historian Niall Ferguson, in his Civilization: The West and the Rest, notes that: “For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download…
Australian citizenship, ceremony and ritual
A friend invited me along to his citizenship ceremony the other day. He’s terribly excited about becoming an Aussie after living here for a number of years. We went to…