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Not fascist at all
Shane Cahill's cheap attempt to brand the war-time Institute of Public Affairs as sympathetic to Japanese fascism ('This fascist mob', Overland,...
Economics is history
If any proof that history matters was needed, it has certainly been provided in the past week or so. First, there was some vigorous historical...
Loving the Corporation
When Peter Drucker died late last year, his reputation as the "father of the modern management" was secure. Leading business figures such as Jack...
Education fails history lesson
The Australian History Summit, which will take place today in Canberra, is an initiative designed to strengthen the place and maintain the...
The whole world must be the story
Even the most hardened summit-sceptic would have to acknowledge that the calling of this week's history summit has already produced a number of...
Time to Bury the Genocide Corpse
The question of 'genocide' in Australia's past is one that will not go away. A fortnight ago, the Courier-Mail published a substantial extract from...
Illusions of Tribal Culture
At first glance, it seems terribly contradictory. The good folk who get so worked up about corporal punishment in schools are often the very...
The Dismissal---25th Anniversary
Today is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the dismissal of Gough Whitlam's Labor government by the then Governor-General, Sir John Kerr. This...
Airbrush Has no Place in History
'The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting', wrote the Czech dissident novelist Milan Kundera. One of the...
So sorry, my mythtake
There is nothing for it but to apologise. I got it wrong. I did not check my facts as well I should have and I relayed an urban myth as fact. The...