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“South Australia has one of the finest governments of the 18th century.” So said the satirist Tom Lehrer when the state govt banned five songs he planned to sing at the 1960 Adelaide Festival. Ken Inglis reported on the controversy for Nation magazine.

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“If the big surprise of May’s election was its lopsided result, a secondary one was how the Coalition had guzzled down the Voice referendum Kool-Aid. Down to their bootstraps, it seems, they believed the 60% No vote held great promise for the election.”

“As former ANU chancellor Gareth Evans has argued, there is probably no finer or more enduring expression of the university’s nation-building charter than the Australian Dictionary of Biography. It has been celebrated as ‘the jewel in the crown’ of ANU.”

“Canberra’s Trump tactic has been to play nice, talk soft, cling to the alliance and try to ride out these years. The trouble with bowing the head in quiet prayer lies in the refusal to raise the eyes to stare at stark reality.”

“Any ANZAAS congress would do as a case study, but the one held in Canberra in 1939 seems as good as any because it falls at about the halfway mark of the congresses. Why not crack that one open to see what might fall out?”

“Stone was never convinced by Scott Morrison, so the Coalition’s defeat in 2022 came as something of a relief. Counselling readers against despair at the prospect of a Labor govt, he immediately foresaw green shoots of recovery under Peter Dutton…”

RT @mumbletwits: Me: what possessed the Libs to this year so overread the 2023 Voice referendum result?.

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