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Georgina Downer

July

Assassinations have made even democracies into darker places.

How toxic talk turns too easily to assassin’s bullets

A more centrist political culture doesn’t make Australia immune to the language that has inflamed American politics in recent times.

Prime Minister Robert Menzies launches Australia’s first nuclear reactor,  HIFAR, on April 18, 1958.

Why we need to have a genuine look at nuclear energy

Nuclear energy is the kind of nation building policy we need when our lucky country’s luck is running out.

June

Greens leaders Adam Bandt and Ellen Sandell at a pro-Palestinian protest at Melbourne University in May.

Greens are a threat to Australia’s bipartisan tolerance

To have a political party standing side by side with protestors who call for the elimination of the Jewish state “from the river to the sea” is intolerable.

Original URL: https://www.afr.com/by/georgina-downer-p537hu