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Celebrities including Jamie Lee Curtis, Eugene Levy, Leighton Meester and Adam Brody, and Paris Hilton have been adversely affected by the LA fires.

Flame trees’ fiery warning for tinderbox Aussie bush

The wildfires ravaging Los Angeles hold important lessons for Australia which, like California, has large forests of highly flammable (introduced) eucalypt trees, which are nicknamed “gasoline trees” in the US.

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Author Bernard Schlink

What drives Germany’s neo-Nazis? This masterful novel seeks answers

Bernhard Schlink took us inside the mind of an SS guard in The Reader. His latest work explores a modern country still shadowed by the past.

  • Tom Ryan
It’s embarrassing to be going to war over hair colour and dress codes in schools – chiefly because they don’t matter.

The bank of nan and pop has undermined the fair go

Jordan Baker’s article about the growing ubiquity of the bank of nan and pop in the payment of school fees should make us very concerned about the direction our society has decided to follow.

Items seized during police raids at two Perth homes, including Nazi iconography, weapons, grenades. Pictures: Australian Federal Police

Police uncover Nazi iconography, trip mine, grenades in Perth raids

A German anti-tank projectile was intercepted while en route from Kazakhstan to Perth, leading to WA Police and Border Force to two homes in Perth’s north-east.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
Opposition Leader John Pesutto speaks to the media after the judgment.

Note to Pesutto: Don’t mention the war

Two famously wry aphorisms warn against comparisons with Hitler or the Nazis in public arguments. Perhaps John Pesutto should have taken note.

  • Tony Wright
Wireless receiving set. This set was built and operated by two Queenslanders while confined by the Japanese in an internment camp in Java during World War II.

The Queensland brothers who risked execution to build a radio in a POW camp

The Hildebrandes’ radio receiver, which kept prisoners of the Japanese informed about the war, is among a collection of ‘secret’ items displayed together for the first time.

  • Nick Dent
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Rebecca Michelides at her home with architect Hannah Tribe. The kitchen island’s legs are a playful tribute to the bombs discovered in the backyard, said Hannah Tribe, principal of Tribe Studio Architects.

Many renovations resemble a bomb site. This Sydney home really was one

In the Grand Designs pantheon of things that can go wrong in a reno, nothing compares with finding a live bomb in the backyard.

  • Julie Power
Restoration of Battle of Britain Spitfire: The aircraft flown by Australian ace Paterson Hughes is being rebuilt.

He was Australia’s deadliest Battle of Britain pilot. Now, his plane will fly again

Pat Hughes shot down more German aircraft than any other Australian pilot when the Luftwaffe attacked during the Battle of Britain.

  • Tim Barlass
Madeleine Riffaud at a book signing in Paris, 1968.

One of the last women who joined the French Resistance during WWII

“When you resisted, you were already a victor. You had already won.”

Private George “Dick” Whittington is guided from the Battle of Buna byb”Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel” Raphael Oimbari. Christmas Day, 1942.

The battle over two of the most compelling images of war

A new book tells the remarkable story behind two photographers who fought censors to record the truth of war.

  • Tony Wright

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