The pantomime of a town hall meeting is many things, including all the fun of the fair. Oh, and they’re educational too, writes Shane Maloney.
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Why don’t we hear these stories about Aboriginal Australia?
You might not guess it from the photos in the newspapers, but the largest concentration of Aboriginal people in Australia lives in western Sydney, writes anthropologist Professor Gillian Cowlishaw.
Informal voting drops, but we don’t know why
A good news story from the 2007 federal election is informal voting. It dropped compared with 2004 – substantially, and in every state. Just why is currently a mystery, writes Peter Brent.
