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“It is a fact,” Vladimir Putin claimed in his address to the Russian people seeking to justify Russia’s attack on Ukraine, “that modern Ukraine was entirely created by Russia or, to be more precise, by Bolshevik, communist Russia.”
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Had Jeremy Bentham observed the shenanigans in federal parliament when the religious freedom legislation was scuttled by amendments that purported to protect the “right” of transgender children to attend religious schools, he would have cracked a wry smile.
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It has been England’s great good fortune that three times in its history, as the country’s circumstances and trajectory underwent seismic change, it was ruled by queens whose exceptional longevity, devotion to duty and judgment helped smooth the transition, preserve national unity and create a sense of continuity between the past, the present and the future.
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Oh for Shakespeare’s skill with insults, with their hyphenated adjectives! Dog-hearted, milk-livered, hell-black, shrill-gorged, lust-dieted, all within a few pages of King Lear.
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Putin takes a leaf from the historical playbook
It is one of the many ironies of Vladimir Putin’s brinkmanship in Ukraine that while he demonises the West as the greatest threat Russia faces, his actions have served only to highlight the divisions within the Western alliance.
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In truth, little of merit in the Greens’ politics of gestures
Australia was built on “violence and dispossession”, claimed Greens leader Adam Bandt immediately before Australia Day, in releasing the Greens’ proposal for a truth and reconciliation commission that would investigate human rights abuses against Aboriginal Australians.
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