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Friday essay: what is it about Versailles?

  • Written by: Peter McPhee, Emeritus professor, University of Melbourne
imageThe Hall of Mirrors at Versailles Palace.Benoit Tessier/Reuters

When the triumphant Donald Trump welcomed Nigel Farage to his $100 million penthouse apartment in Trump Tower on 13 November, the two posed in his lift of gleaming gold. Trump’s hyper-bling apartment is his Versailles fantasy, where the oversized mirrors, picture-frames and...

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You say 'elite media', I say real journalism. And now more than ever we must fight to keep it

  • Written by: Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
imageWhat critics call the 'elite media' is actually journalism that serves the public interest.Shutterstock

A word, if I may, on this nasty new term of abuse “elite media” – they who perpetrate “elite journalism”.

This is the journalism said by those who use the term to be out of touch with so-called “ordinary...

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Law to be strengthened on family violence

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

The Turnbull government has announced it will strengthen the law relating to family violence, ahead of the Council of Australian Governments discussing the issue at its meeting on Friday.

It will make it a crime to breach personal protection injunctions issued by federal family courts, giving police the authority to immediately charge offenders for...

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