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why my battle for access to the 'Palace letters' should matter to all Australians

  • Written by Jenny Hocking, Emeritus Professor, Monash University
why my battle for access to the 'Palace letters' should matter to all AustraliansIndependent Australia

Professor Jenny Hocking recently won her longstanding campaign for the National Archives of Australia to release the so-called “Palace letters” about the dismissal of Gough Whitlam in 1975. This is her account of that campaign.


In August 1975, speaking at a private dinner at Sydney’s Wentworth Hotel,...

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do we choose neighbourhoods to live, work and play in?

  • Written by Halvard Dalheim, Practitioner in Residence, The Henry Halloran Trust, University of Sydney

Living, working and playing in the one neighbourhood has often been touted as the ideal outcome for well-planned cities. Yet this goal has been elusive. For most of us, our daily activities are segregated into one-dimensional precincts.

Every morning we emerge from our “cave” and travel to a fixed place of employment. Thus, we are...

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Spare change? Cashless transactions could end the cultural legacy of the coin

  • Written by Michael P. Theophilos, Senior Lecturer, Australian Catholic University
Spare change? Cashless transactions could end the cultural legacy of the coinShutterstock

As shoppers and retailers do away with cash transactions, we may be witnessing the end of a major source of social and historical information – the coin.

In the modern age, coinage is increasingly seen as cumbersome, a vector for disease and costly to manufacture. Yet for more than 2,600 years, coins have faithfully preserved...

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