Category Archives: History
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The People Are Revolting: America on the Eve of Destruction?
2November 7, 2016 by brettdgale
At the end of one of the more extraordinary election campaigns in political history stock is taken of the journey …
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Lincoln at Gettysburg
3November 20, 2013 by brettdgale
When one recalls that the phrase “detailed programmatic specificity” was uttered in a public speaking engagement or sees an Australian …
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Why I Love the Eighties! The history of a decade in three books.
2October 19, 2013 by brettdgale
It’s often said that if you can remember the Sixties you weren’t there. Perhaps it should also be said that …
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The Greatest American – An Australian Political Hero?
1February 10, 2013 by brettdgale
Steven Spielberg’s bio-pic of the 16th President finally opened in Australia this week. Dealing as it does with Lincoln’s political …
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Advance Australia Where?
Leave a commentJanuary 27, 2013 by brettdgale
It wasn’t that long ago that Australia Day was little more than a long weekend postscript, a surrogate for the …
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