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On Christmas Eve 1914, soldiers on both sides of the Western Front laid down their weapons and sang together across no-man’s-land. Their brief, unsanctioned truce reminds us that we can find peace, even in entrenched positions.
www.eurekastreet.com.au/article/when...
www.eurekastreet.com.au/article/when...
December 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
On Christmas Eve 1914, soldiers on both sides of the Western Front laid down their weapons and sang together across no-man’s-land. Their brief, unsanctioned truce reminds us that we can find peace, even in entrenched positions.
www.eurekastreet.com.au/article/when...
www.eurekastreet.com.au/article/when...
Henry VIII's brides recalled:
... Harry was a bastard. Ruthless, cranky, vaingloriously wanky.
He was spoiled for choice. A crying shame his women weren't.
www.eurekastreet.com.au/article/femi...
... Harry was a bastard. Ruthless, cranky, vaingloriously wanky.
He was spoiled for choice. A crying shame his women weren't.
www.eurekastreet.com.au/article/femi...
www.eurekastreet.com.au
August 29, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Henry VIII's brides recalled:
... Harry was a bastard. Ruthless, cranky, vaingloriously wanky.
He was spoiled for choice. A crying shame his women weren't.
www.eurekastreet.com.au/article/femi...
... Harry was a bastard. Ruthless, cranky, vaingloriously wanky.
He was spoiled for choice. A crying shame his women weren't.
www.eurekastreet.com.au/article/femi...
The expectation that we are to figuratively ‘close the book’ on someone who has died is a decidedly Western and relatively modern idea... this marked sense of closure as the earth falls on the coffin or more commonly, as the curtains close before cremation.
www.eurekastreet.com.au/article/the-...
www.eurekastreet.com.au/article/the-...
www.eurekastreet.com.au
August 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The expectation that we are to figuratively ‘close the book’ on someone who has died is a decidedly Western and relatively modern idea... this marked sense of closure as the earth falls on the coffin or more commonly, as the curtains close before cremation.
www.eurekastreet.com.au/article/the-...
www.eurekastreet.com.au/article/the-...
You describe alcohol as almost a ‘sacred cow’ ...
'Alcohol is certainly one of the most significant risk factors for family violence and sexual violence... many will excuse men who abuse their partners or kids while they’re under the influence.'
www.eurekastreet.com.au/can-we-stop-...
'Alcohol is certainly one of the most significant risk factors for family violence and sexual violence... many will excuse men who abuse their partners or kids while they’re under the influence.'
www.eurekastreet.com.au/can-we-stop-...
www.eurekastreet.com.au
August 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
You describe alcohol as almost a ‘sacred cow’ ...
'Alcohol is certainly one of the most significant risk factors for family violence and sexual violence... many will excuse men who abuse their partners or kids while they’re under the influence.'
www.eurekastreet.com.au/can-we-stop-...
'Alcohol is certainly one of the most significant risk factors for family violence and sexual violence... many will excuse men who abuse their partners or kids while they’re under the influence.'
www.eurekastreet.com.au/can-we-stop-...
Alcohol is certainly one of the most significant risk factors for family violence and sexual violence. ...
It’s painfully hard to regulate alcohol and gambling in Australia. But these are both significant risk factors for family and sexual violence...
www.eurekastreet.com.au/can-we-stop-...
It’s painfully hard to regulate alcohol and gambling in Australia. But these are both significant risk factors for family and sexual violence...
www.eurekastreet.com.au/can-we-stop-...
Can we stop violence against women and children? In conversation with Jess Hill
Reports of gendered violence surround us, yet too often we tune them out. Journalist Jess Hill argues we can’t afford selective hearing. From coercive control to alcohol-fuelled abuse, she explains th...
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August 23, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Alcohol is certainly one of the most significant risk factors for family violence and sexual violence. ...
It’s painfully hard to regulate alcohol and gambling in Australia. But these are both significant risk factors for family and sexual violence...
www.eurekastreet.com.au/can-we-stop-...
It’s painfully hard to regulate alcohol and gambling in Australia. But these are both significant risk factors for family and sexual violence...
www.eurekastreet.com.au/can-we-stop-...
'Memo to the heads of debauchment'
(An Australian office tragedy in three acts)
Misery does not love company. Still,
troglodytes unite in micro-managing
and glory-hogging their way up
the corporate pecker... etc.
(back in 2010, still true)
www.eurekastreet.com.au/article/memo...
(An Australian office tragedy in three acts)
Misery does not love company. Still,
troglodytes unite in micro-managing
and glory-hogging their way up
the corporate pecker... etc.
(back in 2010, still true)
www.eurekastreet.com.au/article/memo...
July 31, 2025 at 3:57 AM
'Memo to the heads of debauchment'
(An Australian office tragedy in three acts)
Misery does not love company. Still,
troglodytes unite in micro-managing
and glory-hogging their way up
the corporate pecker... etc.
(back in 2010, still true)
www.eurekastreet.com.au/article/memo...
(An Australian office tragedy in three acts)
Misery does not love company. Still,
troglodytes unite in micro-managing
and glory-hogging their way up
the corporate pecker... etc.
(back in 2010, still true)
www.eurekastreet.com.au/article/memo...
Once long ago, two tribes flourished... Game theory tells us that we are players. Neuroscience tells us we can learn. And stories, even fables of mythical long-tailed tribes in ancient forests, tell us that the way forward is not to win, but to walk together.
www.eurekastreet.com.au/article/the-...
www.eurekastreet.com.au/article/the-...
The case for cooperation in an age of collapse
In a world strained by conflict, climate disruption, and political division, cooperation is not weakness — it’s wisdom. From ancient fables to modern neuroscience and game theory, we learn that surviv...
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June 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Once long ago, two tribes flourished... Game theory tells us that we are players. Neuroscience tells us we can learn. And stories, even fables of mythical long-tailed tribes in ancient forests, tell us that the way forward is not to win, but to walk together.
www.eurekastreet.com.au/article/the-...
www.eurekastreet.com.au/article/the-...
Tia has mixed views about winter and rain.
May 24, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Tia has mixed views about winter and rain.
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May 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
The ability to control the temperature of the air we breathe, sleep in, play in, work in and walk around in is a privilege, marked by gross inequity... the homeless have no access at all to heating or cooling, even when they desperately need it.
www.eurekastreet.com.au/article/ineq...
www.eurekastreet.com.au/article/ineq...
Inequality in an age of weather extremes
As extreme weather becomes more common in Australia, so too do deaths from heat and cold. And those who suffer most are the most vulnerable: the poor, the unhoused. What does it mean to survive the cl...
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May 22, 2025 at 1:57 AM
The ability to control the temperature of the air we breathe, sleep in, play in, work in and walk around in is a privilege, marked by gross inequity... the homeless have no access at all to heating or cooling, even when they desperately need it.
www.eurekastreet.com.au/article/ineq...
www.eurekastreet.com.au/article/ineq...
'... They know that policies aren’t written with them in mind. That campaign events aren’t held in shelters. That meet-and-greets don’t take place in food queues... They know they don’t count...'
www.eurekastreet.com.au/street-poll
www.eurekastreet.com.au/street-poll
Street poll: Which party will win the votes of Australians doing it tough?
Australia’s political class might make grand promises, but for those on the margins — homeless, underemployed, struggling with addiction — these pledges mean little. The people who have been left behi...
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March 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
'... They know that policies aren’t written with them in mind. That campaign events aren’t held in shelters. That meet-and-greets don’t take place in food queues... They know they don’t count...'
www.eurekastreet.com.au/street-poll
www.eurekastreet.com.au/street-poll
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We might have figured out a way to get Trump to shut up
February 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
We might have figured out a way to get Trump to shut up
'... We are, most of us, world-class experts when it comes to identifying the shortcomings of others. A mate’s spinelessness, a colleague’s arrogance, a partner’s maddening insecurity, each flaw sticks out like a sore thumb...'
www.eurekastreet.com.au/is-outrage-o...
www.eurekastreet.com.au/is-outrage-o...
February 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
'... We are, most of us, world-class experts when it comes to identifying the shortcomings of others. A mate’s spinelessness, a colleague’s arrogance, a partner’s maddening insecurity, each flaw sticks out like a sore thumb...'
www.eurekastreet.com.au/is-outrage-o...
www.eurekastreet.com.au/is-outrage-o...