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Nature Boy

Music / August 18, 2021 / 16 minutes of reading

This story is based on an interview I conducted with Kamahl in March 2009, hitherto untold. It’s been a long time coming. I hope it puts his life, his perspective and the events of recent weeks into greater context. Kandiah Kamalesvaran was seven years old when the Imperial Japanese Army completed their conquest of Malaysia […]

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Gina buys the chook run

Australian Politics, Media / February 2, 2012 / 4 minutes of reading

In the early part of his political career, former Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen – aka The Hillbilly Dictator – had a jaundiced attitude to the pesky officers of the press corps. “The greatest thing that could happen to the state and the nation is when we get rid of all the media,” he said. “Then

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