Book review of David Marr's extraordinary piece of Australian historical writing: Killing for Country: a Family Story David Marr explains everything about Killing for Country in a note that occupies no more than one page and immediately follows the Contents page. He says: "I remember my great-grandmother. She ha...

Review of David Marr's extraordinary history of his own ancestors' involvement in an Australan genocide: www.academia.edu/121388979/Bo...

Book review: Ross Garnaut's "Dog Days" Australia's terms of trade have changed for the worse since mid-2011. The days of easy mineral exports are over. This will, and needs to, lead to a sizeable devaluation. This gives an opportunity ...

Review of Ross Garnaut's fascinating analysis of times when the economy is hard going for any government to manage: www.academia.edu/6754013/Book...

T20 World Cup 2026: Refugee swaps tapeball cricket for tournament The story of Afghan refugee Zainullah Ihsan, who is going to the T20 World Cup with Scotland three years after his first net session.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cy59xy3q9neo

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Aussies Georgia Voll and Grace Harris are Indian WPL Champions after RCB won a high scoring final early this morning.
Voll scored 79 in a 165 partnership with Smriti Mandhana to help RCB chase Delhi’s 203.
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Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

Review of brilliant biography of poet, John Donne: www.academia.edu/118990778/Su...

Australia's Local Heroes are putting 'people and planet before profit' Vanessa Brettell and Hannah Costello have employed and trained more than 60 migrant and refugee women through their social enterprise cafe Stepping Stone in Canberra. The pair have now been named Aust...

Great local hero story.
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Important article fom Sister Prejean, the nun who wrote Dead Man Walking: www.jwmf.com.au/blog/realiti...

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Zimbabwe scraps the death penalty – tracking the path to abolition Countries that retain the death penalty often argue that the public supports it. In Zimbabwe, research helped challenge this narrative.

We are proud to have worked with The Death Penalty Project (London) to support tireless efforts by Veritas Zimbabwe & the UK and Swiss embassies to abolish the death penalty in Zimbabwe. Today President Mnangagwa signed the new Act into law. Happy New Year!!
theconversation.com/zimbabwe-scr...

Good but more to be done

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Fighting the Death Penalty from Australia The death penalty cannot be imposed by law in Australia. Nonetheless, there are many good reasons to oppose the continuation of the death penalty until it exists no where in the world. This is my stor...

Thoughts on opposing the death penalty: www.academia.edu/125584675/Fi...

Read more on Singapore's deterrence defence on our website: www.jwmf.com.au/blog/singapo...

Celebrating abolition in Zimbabwe twenty years after its last execution

On 31 December 2024, Zimbabwe passed legislation to formally abolish the death penalty, becoming the 128th country to end capital punishment.

In this new article, Carolyn Hoyle and Parvais Jabbar reflect on the process of reaching abolition in Zimbabwe:

blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/death-penalt...

Review of Richard Rorty's Philosophy and Social Hope Rorty was a leading pragmatist philosopher of the late twentieth century. Philosophy and Social Hope is a collection of essays selected with an eye to the general reader. It provides an introduction t...

Review of Richard Rorty's Philosophy and Social Hope: www.academia.edu/35627070/Rev...

A Long Petal of the Sea The title, A Long Petal of the Sea, is a description of Chile, drawing on its long skinny shape and its close relationship with the Pacific Ocean. It is taken from a reference in Pablo Neruda's wr...

Review of Isabel Allende's beautiful novel: www.academia.edu/107401614/A_...

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Fighting the Death Penalty from Australia The death penalty cannot be imposed by law in Australia. Nonetheless, there are many good reasons to oppose the continuation of the death penalty until it exists no where in the world. This is my stor...

Thoughts on opposing the death penalty: www.academia.edu/125584675/Fi...

Well done, Zimbabwe

Encouraging

But more is needed

Interesting article

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