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Victoria’s oldest ethnic club seeks major transformation.

As Victoria’s oldest ethnic club, Club Tivoli has known many periods of change and transformation. With its first president formally inducted in 1860, the now 162-year-old Club has known...

Frankenstein: how Mary Shelley’s sci-fi classic offers lessons for us today about the dangers of playing God

Image: Boris Karloff as Frankenstein’s monster. Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus, is an 1818 novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley....

Sunday essay: ‘I said no’ – Nie’s refusal and the troubling question of Pacific slavery in Australia

Image: A Pacific island woman with a child planting sugar cane in a field, Bingara, Queensland, c 1897. John...

Sunday essay: ‘but we already had a treaty’ – Tom Griffiths on a little known 1889 peace accord

Image: Josh Gorringe at the Debney Peace site in 2019. Photo: Tom Griffiths Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are...

Archbishop Desmond Tutu: father of South Africa’s ‘rainbow nation’

Image: Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Epa/Ian Langsdon Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu has died at the age of 90. Archbishop Tutu earned the respect...

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