Maoists claim India train derailment, collision
At least 65 people have been killed after an express train was derailed in eastern India, crossing into the path of another train.
After The Rain
Australian Ukrainians’ split Cup allegiances
Let’s now take a look at another of the countries experiencing their first World Cup, and the Australian community of fans who’ll be following their rise through the ranks. Ukraine became independent from the former Soviet Union in 1991 after more than 70 years of division between the USSR, Poland, Romania and Czechoslovakia.
Mental Notes August 2022: Mugabe, Habibe, Pohiva, dad, and I
BRISBANE–Wrote this in a flourish when dad died. Not quite right then, with so much detail, now found it makes sense.
Mental Notes September 2020: Opening the suitcase
BRISBANE–Inspired by a photo found by Adam Trainer featuring Glide with me in 1995 in the RTRFM studio, I wondered what goodies were in that battered suitcase — see bottom-left — I flat-packed with hundreds of CDs without jewel cases 22 years ago.
In conversation with former Grok editor Adam Connors
Adam Connors finds a quiet corner of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) offices in Perth to speak to Grok briefly about his formative years as a Curtin University student, back in the early-to-mid 1990s, when he wrote for Grok Magazine and worked on his Honours in English.
Engineers of the soul
Engineers of the Soul: Ideology in Xi Jinping’s China by John Garnaut
Ford Rangers, Mazda BT-50s recalled as farmers report spot fires with new utes
A farmer in western Victoria says a fire started by his new ute, a model recently recalled by the manufacturers, could have cost him millions of dollars in damage.
What people on the river think of the Murray-Darling revelations
What do people within the catchment actually think of the basin plan after Four Corners’ revelations?
Was the ABC shanghaied by Beijing?
By John Fitzgerald Inside Story April 18, 2016 China needs no help in silencing its critics at home and abroad. So how did Australia come to be part of the problem, asks John Fitzgerald.
No regrets over Sandline affair: Sir Julius
Papua New Guinea’s former prime minister Sir Julius Chan says that if he had been allowed to continue with the infamous Sandline operation to put down the Bougainville civil war in 1997, he would have been able to bring the island under control.
