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On Monday, as Hamas launched hundreds of missiles against Israel’s population centres, prompting Israeli strikes at Hamas’ war-waging capabilities, Jews celebrated Shavuot, the “Feast of Weeks”, which commemorates both the first wheat the Israelites harvested in the Land of Israel and the anniversary of the giving of the Torah (the Hebrew Bible) and its law by God to the Children of Israel at Mount Sinai in 1312 BCE. Coming 50 days after Passover, which marks the Israelites’ flight from Egypt to the promised land, the coincidence of the events celebrated at Shavuot is anything but accidental.

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On May 27, 1971, as the second attempt to ban Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint failed miserably in the NSW Court of Quarter Sessions, literary censorship in Australia effectively came to an end.

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In July 1993, when The New Yorker presciently captioned Peter Steiner’s iconic cartoon with “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog”, the implication was obvious: to be online is to be anonymous.

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This Sunday, on Anzac Day, we will remember those who gave their lives for this country, most recently in Afghanistan, and honour their bravery and devotion. Yet in a culture that places victimhood on a pedestal, the future of the values which shape that tradition of service seems increasingly uncertain.

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On December 22, 1988, Ralph Willis, who had recently become minister for communications in the third Hawke government, met with George Maltby, the managing director of the Overseas Telecommunications Commission, and demanded his resignation.

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Operation Vest: Anonymity courts malicious intent, blights rule of law

The rule of law suffered yet another blow late last month when the NSW police launched Operation Vest, encouraging the public to register anonymous complaints against alleged offenders on the Sexual Assault Reporting online platform.

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