HeyJaredPaul Daley
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- Sep 25, 2026
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Bruce Pascoeâs new book may spark another culture war. He hopes for âdecency and intellectual curiosityâ this time (opens the original)
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The Dark Emu author rails against Christianity, capitalism and colonialism â and Shakespeare and Charles Dickens cop a serve too. Heâs ready for blowback On the eve of publication of his new book, Bruce Pascoe is steeling himself for potential controversy that could rival the bitter storm that battered and bruised him for years over the 2014 book that rewrote Australian history: Dark Emu. Where Dark Emu contentiously sought to reframe pre-invasion Australian First Nations people from hunter-
Iâm not usually patriotic. But Pauline Hansonâs cheap nationalism has me rooting for multicultural Australia | Paul Daley (opens the original)
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Patriotism can be angry and stridently militaristic â or it can be a gentle pride in the success of an experiment like multiculturalism Patriotism is always stubbornly absent in me on days of official national commemoration. Australia Day â Invasion Day â has always left me cold for its divisiveness, historical asymmetry and exclusivity. Anzac Day, an unofficial national day for many, has never raised a patriotic shiver in me. I admit to feeling more than a little buoyant on particular int
Australiaâs âpioneerâ colonists profited from slavery. That truth must be acknowledged | Paul Daley (opens the original)
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The veil is slowly being lifted on the forced or coerced migration â âblackbirdingâ â of Pacific Islanders for labour Whatâs in a name? If that name happens to be Townsville, the coastal north-east Queensland city, the answer is: slavery. While he scarcely went to the place that still bears his name, Robert Towns, the 19th century British-born Australian colonist, has largely been warmly and sentimentally regarded as a genteel, civic-minded merchant and entrepreneur. Like so many basta
Sydneyâs sugar rush: how the colonyâs most powerful profited from Australiaâs slave trade (opens the original)
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Australia likes to think its history is untainted by slavery but a new book traces how a whoâs who in the NSW capital profited from the capture and sale of âblackbirdedâ Pacific Islanders Emelda Davis is a former Sydney city councillor, community advocate and second-generation descendant of blackbirded South Sea Islanders. Otherwise known as enslaved people. Australia has often sought to reassure itself that at least the nation is untainted, unlike Britain and the US, by a heinous history
Lonely planet: why are we addicted to the social media scroll when it is so clearly harming us? | Paul Daley (opens the original)
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I am hanging on to a product that makes people I loathe more super-rich while they trash the worldThere is so much talk of all the lonely people in the world right now that the pervasive state of loneliness is being called an epidemic.I don’t think that is an overstatement. I see loneliness around me all of the time. Everywhere. Not just in the faces of rough sleepers who look up at passers-by in the hope of finding eye contact and a little empathy – but also in the faces of those who rush past
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