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Trent Dalton writes for The Weekend Australian Magazine. He’s a two-time Walkley Award winner; three-time Kennedy Award winner for excellence in NSW journalism and a four-time winner of the national News Awards Features Journalist of the Year. In 2011, he was named Queensland Journalist of the Year at the Clarion Awards for excellence in Queensland journalism. He has won worldwide acclaim for his bestselling novels Boy Swallows Universe and All Our Shimmering Skies.

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The world according to Dick

At 74 and super-rich, he could be kicking back but instead he travels the country spruiking his manifesto. What makes Dick Smith tick?

Trent Dalton

Federal Budget

A statue of Captain James Cook stands in Sydney's Hyde Park on August 25, 2017, as Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull labelled calls to change colonial-era monuments and the date of Australia Day, in attempts to better reflect the country's indigenous past, as a 'Stalinist' excercise in re-writing history. A cultural debate intensified this week when prominent indigenous commentator Stan Grant dubbed the inscription

Opening young eyes to Cook

The National Museum of Australia will use $6.58m to educate a new generation on the voyage of Captain Cook’s Endeavour

Trent Dalton

Opinion

Captain James Cook (1728-1779) by Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland. 1775, Hanging in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

A Cook’s tour of the universe

Maybe some kid who once may have skulked through Hyde Park with a spraycan might now walk past Cook’s statue looking up at the stars.

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The Weekend Australian Magazine

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The ghost of Dame Edna

She helped him overcome a troubled past. Now Barry Humphries is ready to face the world without her.

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The Weekend Australian Magazine

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‘The ultimate form of control’

Until she lost her daughter, Sonia Anderson had no idea how common the act of strangulation was — or why so many could get away with it.

Trent Dalton

Inquirer

Operation Bulimba (2/15th Battalion attack near Tel el Eisa, Egypt), September 1942. Source: AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL/ART27559

My debt to those glorious Rats

My family owes its existence to Reg Coyne and Johnny White, who saved Grandad’s life during Operation Bulimba in 1942.

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The Weekend Australian Magazine

Gone girl

Five years ago we followed Gabrielle Upton’s wrenching journey from the outback to a city boarding school. It was the making of her.

Trent Dalton

Review

A worker cleans a statue of Captain Cook after it was vandalised in St Kilda, Melbourne, Thursday, January 25. 2018. The statue of Captain James Cook and another statue commemorating two explorers were vandalised in Melbourne in the lead up to Australia Day. (AAP Image/David Crosling) NO ARCHIVING

That’s history

Mark McKenna believes it’s time the nation moved beyond dates and debates.

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The Weekend Australian Magazine

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Goondiwindi: it’s in the water

The Queensland border town is capturing the imagination of people looking for a slower, more intentional kind of life.

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exclusiveNational Affairs

Facebook pic of FV Dianne crew by Ruben McDornan

Families want surveillance overhaul

The sole survivor of dive boat FV Dianne has demanded overhauls to maritime emergency response systems.

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