In the late 19th century, the theory that the Aborigines were an inferior race that was doomed to die out became accepted as fact.
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There's always been something deeply disturbing about the Abbott government's attitude to women.
I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write.
God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.
History, like journalism, is ever a journey outwards, and you must report back what you find and no more.
Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage.
I realised that if I wished to write about the dark and not allow for hope, people would recognise it as false - because hope is the nub of what we are.