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Vale, Malcolm Fraser. You were a liberal lion in its truest sense; a tireless humanitarian campaigner for dignity, decency, compassion...

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Cheating in cricket isn't cool. Cheating isn't cool. 'Sandpaper-gate' reminds all of us that Australian cricketers are role models, and...

I don't spend a lot of time in the dustier corners of the inter-web, so I've just discovered a bloke by the name of Ben Shapiro. What an...

When you hear an elected Australian Senator defending his abuse of a fellow Senator by using the argument that 'general abuse' is ok,...

One of the cool things about literary readings is that they can be applied to anything. All they do is filter a text's content through a...