Ideas@ The Centre 15
Vol. 4 No. 15 (April, 2010)Freedom quote of the week:
‘Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.’
- Leonid Brezhnez-
The ANZAC story
| 23 Apr 2010I knew little of my grandfather’s service in World War I until an amateur historian drew my attention to several references to him in Charles Bean’s The Story of ANZAC, part of the multi-volume official history of Australia’s involvement in the Great War.
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The forgotten Indigenous Australians
| 23 Apr 2010This week Channel Ten’s 7pm Project did a report on whether Australia is racist. It raised a few questions – specifically can you define a whole country as racist just because a proportion of Australians are? Clearly not – and that was the conclusion that the presenters ended up reaching.
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UK election report - The questions no one dares to answer
| 23 Apr 2010‘The parties launched their manifestos this week.
