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"We must work harder to protect the rights and freedoms of all Australians. It is time to legislate for a charter of rights to give parliament, civil society and the judiciary the legal tools to meet our human rights obligations."
Gillian Triggs in Speaking Up
"A mother’s love is so exquisite as to be beyond comparison; it is not measured on a scale."
Sarah Ferguson in On Mother
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"Faith required effort that was beyond me. Doubt was instinctive."
Leigh Sales in On Doubt
"Politics as the art of conflict is not a phenomenon confined to the United States. In Australia, we had our own Trump precursor."
Katharine Murphy in On Disruption
From the blog
Audio Stories from Adelaide
The sessions from Adelaide Writers’ Week 2019 are now available in podcast form, so whether you couldn’t make it or would like to hear it all again, settle in for a suite of erudite and contemplative conversations.
The Blackburns: Private Lives, Public Ambitions
When socialist barrister and aspiring member of parliament Maurice Blackburn met Doris Hordern, ardent feminist and campaign secretary to Vida Goldstein, neither had marriage in their imagined futures. But they fell in love-with each other as much as with their individual aspirations to change the world for the better.
