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 An evening with Colm Toibin (p2)

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An evening with Colm Toibin (p2)

Part 1 | Part 2 In this Sydney Writers' Festival highlight, Colm Toibin talks to Caroline Baum about his extensive and impressive career of...

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 An evening with Colm Tóibín

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An evening with Colm Tóibín

Part 1 | Part 2In this Sydney Writers' Festival highlight, Colm Tóibín talks to Caroline Baum about his extensive and impressive career of...

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Richard Casey & Mahatma Gandhi

On 1 December 1945, as British rule of India entered its tumultuous final phase, Mohandas Gandhi arrived in Calcutta. That night, he held...

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Trivial Pursuit

Craig Sherborne

You miss out on medicine by five points and so you dedicate your life to trivia. Don't get eccentric on us, with your pointy bald head and...

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Sorry Business: The Road to the Apology

Robert Manne

Two pieces of evidence I stumbled upon shortly after reading the report had a particularly powerful effect on me. One was a passage from...

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Truth, Death & Diplomacy in East Timor: A Commission’s Report Confirms Australian Duplicity & Cowardice

Mark Aarons

As the recent report of East Timor’s Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation demonstrates, his country got both.The 2500-page...

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