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I still, just, support the war in Afghanistan. I still regard the probable consequences of withdrawal in defeat by the Western powers as highly undesirable. I even believe that, for troops in [...]

In October 1996 the novelist Thomas Keneally told the BBC that Pauline Hanson had put Australia on the train to Auschwitz.* You would, paraphrasing George Orwell, have to be an intellectual to [...]

It is 200 years since British MP William Wilberforce’s bill to abolish the slave trade was finally proclaimed into law in 1807, after a 20 year battle. The world, including Australia, is [...]

Professor Thomas Madden chairs the history department at St Louis University, Missouri, USA. He is also the author of A Concise History of the Crusades. He says, “Since September 11, the Crusades [...]