As unending lockdowns fuel an increasingly widespread sense of war-weariness, a great deal of ugliness is coming to the surface. Few incidents are as troubling, however, as the reaction to an engagement party that was held at a private house in Melbourne on August 14,
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The fall of Kabul will resonate every bit as loudly among the Islamists and their supporters as the collapse of the twin towers. Next month, as Americans commemorate the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the fall of Kabul will resonate every bit as loudly among the Islamists and their supporters as the collapse of the twin towers.
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Long before the many accounts of the last days of humanity were committed to writing, tribal lays had recorded disasters that would presage the demise of life on earth.
The end of the world, it seems, is here to stay. No doubt, today’s climate scientists, armed with computer models that spit out mountains of projections, are a far cry from the doomsaying prophets of old.
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That Australia’s athletes put in a splendid performance at the Tokyo Olympics is beyond doubt. Yet the pattern of results is almost as striking as the overall performance itself.
There is, in effect, a substantial difference between that pattern and both Australia’s results in previous Olympics and the results at Tokyo of the countries we usually view as peers. What stands out is not only the very high ratio of gold to silver medals but also of bronze medals to fourth places.
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Once upon a time, schoolchildren were taught that the coming of Federation in 1901 was the work of providence, whose bounteous hand was guided by an omniscient and benevolent deity.
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Last Sunday Helge Braun, the head of Germany’s powerful federal chancellery and a close ally of Angela Merkel, suggested it was only a matter of time before restrictions were imposed on access to public venues by “people who are not vaccinated, even if they have been tested for Covid, because the risks of infection are too high”.
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