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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

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Shirley Beiger shot dead her gangster lover on a public street and got away with the crime.

She shot dead her lover, a crime to be re-enacted 70 years later

The “wickedly charismatic” true crime retelling of the death of an underworld gangster in the Darlinghurst Law Courts is turning into a box office hit of the Sydney Festival.

  • Linda Morris
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This organisation has shaped WA lives for 120 years. Heard any of these names?

Once West Australians could legally drink anywhere from the front line of war to before hopping in the car to drive home. One WA group stopped all that – but it didn’t stop there.

  • Merinda March
A worker inspects a 30-metre drystone wall discovered under Adelaide Street. in February 2022.

Convict-era wall unearthed in Brisbane to feature at North Quay

The stone wall discovered under Adelaide Street in 2022 will now feature in landscaping at North Quay.

  • Tony Moore
Richard Smith looking at the collection of his mother’s letters sent from London during WW2. He donated them to the State Library of NSW.

The family secrets Richard learned from his mum’s WWII letters

Winifred Smith’s letters, now on display at the State Library of NSW, are a rare insight into women’s experience of the war effort.

  • Julie Power
The Rennie Ellis exhibition at the State Library of Victoria.

In a time before selfies, Rennie Ellis captured Melbourne

There were no selfies or duck faces when Rennie Ellis was roaming Melbourne with his camera instead he captured the unaffected and ordinary faces of the city. 

  • Cara Waters
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Souvenir teaspoons from the collection of Simon Normand that for part of his Teaspoon Colony exhibition at the Australian Galleries.

Examining Australia’s dark history through little silver teaspoons

The phenomenon of the tea break and a chance discovery at his mother’s house led artist Simon Normand down an unexpected path.

  • Stephen Brook
Alice Hubbers reunited with Sonja Cowan after more than 80 years.

‘Never thought we’d meet again’: Holocaust survivors reunite after more than 80 years

Sonja and Alice first met in 1939 at a farm school for Jewish refugee children. A lifetime later and on the other side of the world they would finally meet again.

  • Benjamin Preiss
Kazuko Nelson stands at the entrance of a secret tunnel network below the Hero of Waterloo pub.

Secret tunnels, a suburb erased and witches covens: Sydney’s strangest urban tales

Fact or fiction? The Herald examines three of Sydney’s more popular urban myths to see if there’s any truth to them.

  • Amber Schultz
Jack Hayes, centre, being welcomed home in Australia on February 15, 1919.

A bloodied valley by the Somme, where hatred was finally put aside

They were young, bold and accomplished at warfare’s killing. But for one of the legendary Chipilly Six, an enemy became simply a man with family photos.

  • Tony Wright

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