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A statue without limitations

Orders is orders.

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Edmund Barton was MP for Hastings-Macleay in the colonial NSW parliament, but lived in Sydney.

‘Stuck in the past’: Push to remove statue of ‘racist’ Australian prime minister

A statue erected for the centenary of Federation in 2001 could be removed because of an “explicitly racist” legacy.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
The statue of William Crowther, former premier of Tasmania, in Franklin Square, Hobart.

Statues with limitations: The bronzed figures who stand still while time marches on

The imminent removal of a statue honouring a despicable 19th century Tasmanian premier is a reminder that we should be careful who, and what, we put on a pedestal.

  • Malcolm Knox
Picture supplied. ABC revealing Gallipoli programme courtesy of the Australian War Memorial. Veterans soldiers from New Zealand and Australiarest in a Gallipoli trench. History Newcastle Herald World War I WWI Anzac

Conundrum at heart of War Memorial’s artwork

The First World War may be the stupidest ever waged. So how do we revere the sacrifice without glorifying the war that demanded it?

  • Elizabeth Farrelly
NSW Acting Premier John Barilaro said he was confident with today's COVID-19 statistics.

Undermining IPC betrays Barilaro’s deeper loyalties

Deputy Premier of NSW John Barilaro wants to disband the Independent Planning Commission after its decision to reject a mine expansion project on drinking water safety grounds. Whose side is he on?

Elizabeth Macquarie was determined to clear her husband’s name.

Heroine Elizabeth Macquarie dared to defy fake news 200 years ago

Long before Donald Trump, Australia had its own disgraceful episode of perverting the facts.

  • Sue Williams
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"A view of the Cove and Part of Sydney", drawn by convict Joseph Lycett in 1818.

Bold state activism drove us from our convict days, and we need it again now

From settlement, it was a project of government that rapidly converted a penal colony into what Charles Darwin lauded as "a grand Centre of Civilisation".

  • Luke Slattery
Authors Tom and Meg Keneally, left, president of the Parramatta Female Factory Friends Gay Hendriksen, centre, former NSW governor Marie Bashir and author and filmmaker John Pilger, right, at the Parramatta Female Factory precinct.

Friends of historic female factory campaign for World Heritage listing

Instead of sharing the same World Heritage listing status as the Hyde Park Barracks, the future of the Parramatta Female Factory and Institutions Precinct is in the balance.

  • Tim Barlass
The Block in 2002. The neighbourhood has deep connections to Indigenous culture.

No one considered the cost to Sydney of crushing this vibrant community hub

Corporate profiteering is set to ruin the oldest Indigenous urban settlement in the country.

  • Elizabeth Farrelly

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