HeyJaredDavid Ellery
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Shouldn't we be living on the moon and Mars by now? What happened? (opens the original)
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As a precocious young lad in the late 1960s I was mightily influenced by a book called Facing the Atomic Future by Sir Ernest William Titterton, a veteran of the Manhattan Project and the foundation chair of Nuclear Physics at the Australian National University. Sir Ernest, like many of his contemporaries, was what we would now call a "techno-optimist". He, like many of the scientists and engineers involved in the space program, the burgeoning nuclear industry, and at the forefront of advances i
The invasion of the body snatchers: a history darker than any fiction (opens the original)
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First of all, my humble thanks for the warm reception my first essay in this forum on Tuesday received from Echidna readers. Almost 50 of you responded with your thoughts on the frontier wars and whether or not they should be given full recognition in the Australian War Memorial. While, as I expected, some comments fell into the "shit happens" camp of which I was once a member, more than three-quarters of the respondents, many of whom grew up in the 1960s and 1970s, identified with the journey I
I was indoctrinated from a young age. But I have changed my mind on 'frontier wars' (opens the original)
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Having been born at the tail end of the baby boom, it was inevitable I would grow up heavily indoctrinated in the white-armband view of Australian history. I, and an entire generation, were force-fed an ideology that borrowed heavily from the American concept of "manifest destiny" and dismissed the 60,000 years before 1770 as a footnote. It is no wonder so many Anglo Australians of my vintage are triggered when the frontier wars are brought up or some brave soul argues for their recognition in t
Don't worry, be happy. The world isn't going to blow up (opens the original)
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The many ponderous pundits, armchair analysts, talking heads and paid-up members of the commentariat who have spent the last few days critiquing the government's latest intergenerational report have completely missed its most important underlying assumption. An obvious question, which must surely be on the lips of anybody who has been following the news cycle over the last few months, is on what basis do the authors of the report believe the world whose future it purports to chart will be here i
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