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What’s an LRAD? Explaining the ‘sonic weapons’ police use for crowd control and communication

Image: Shutterstock At vaccine mandate protests in Canberra last week, police used powerful loud-hailing devices called Long-Range Acoustic Devices (LRADs) to address protesters. While some protesters claimed they...

What is the Australian merchant navy flag, the red ensign? And why do anti-government groups use it?

  Image: James Ross/AAP The Australian red ensign – a red version of the familiar Australian flag – has appeared all over the news and...

The forgotten Australian veterans who opposed National Service and the Vietnam War

      Ex-service people protest the visit of US President Lyndon Johnson, December 1966. Picture courtesy the Waddington family, Author provided (no reuse) On July 26 1971,...

Sunday essay: searching for sanity in a world hell-bent on destruction

  Picture: Unsplash/Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona According to The Parable of the Poisoned Well, there once lived a king who ruled over a great city. He was...

‘What are you afraid of ScoMo?’: Australian women are angry — and the Morrison government needs to listen

 Picture: AAP Image/Dave Hunt Thousands of women are gathering in cities across the country, angry about the allegations of rape, sexual abuse and harassment emerging...

Voices, hearts and hands

Original Protest has, by default, always been aligned with sound. It is an action concerned with the amplification of a message – wanting to make sure...

Cream of The Crate: Album Review # 142 – Leadbelly: The Library Of Congress Recordings

      This review was originally posted on the first Toorak Times web site where publications ceased on that site in March 2017. The old...

Can poetry stop a highway? Wielding words in the battle over Roe

Can poetry stop a highway? On the face of it you wouldn’t think so. But this idea is being put to the test in Perth’s...
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