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The Jam - The Gift: Deluxe Edition

A sad album finale for a remarkable band.




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Bad Brains - Into the Future

The hardcore trailblazers may have another classic LP in them, but this isn’t it.




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T. Rex - The Slider: 40th Anniversary Box Set

Bolan’s brilliance came through clearly on T. Rex’s seventh LP.




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Neil Diamond - The Very Best of Neil Diamond: The Original Studio Recordings

Offers more than a whistle-stop tour of the hits.




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The Seeds - The Seeds

A worthwhile experience no matter how familiar you are with its many pleasures.




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Various Artists - Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From the First Psychedelic Era: 1965-68

An indispensable illustration of the wild and vivid evolution of 1960s psychedelia.




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David Bowie - The Next Day

A triumphant, almost defiant, return – innovative, dark, bold and creative.




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John Foxx and the Maths - Evidence

Foxx’s third Maths-assisted set is probably his best post-Ultravox LP.




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Karl Bartos - Off the Record

A mixed manifestation of electronic pop from the former Kraftwerk-er.




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COVID-19, Trump and China, and the ALP’s election fiasco

How the US and China have handled the coronavirus contagion and the secret history of Labor's election debacle.




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Viral economics and, is this the end of globalisation?

Is the government pulling the right levers to mitigate the economic impact of Covid-19. How long can the Australian economy survive shut downs before we tip into irreparable damage? 




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Singapore’s coronavirus advice to Australia, and Max Hastings on the Dambusters

Hear from the chair of Infection Control at the National University Hospital in Singapore, who says home isolation is impossible to enforce, and everyone who tests positive for coronavirus should be isolated in hospitals or in designated hotels until they recover. Plus, veteran British historian Max Hastings discusses his new history of the World War Two Dambusters raid.




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Turnbull's legacy, and 75 years after Hitler's death: who did he really see as the enemy?

Weighing up Turnbull’s legacy This week, former Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull published his memoir A Bigger Picture.  In it he settles old scores with colleagues over his 2018 ousting, which he describes as an “act of madness.” What is his legacy, and how will history judge our nation’s twenty ninth Prime Minister? Jacqueline Maley, columnist at The Sydney Morning Herald. Jennifer Oriel, columnist at The Australian   And, the death of a führer April 30th marks seventy-five years since Hitler’s suicide. Cambridge historian Brendan Simms challenges past scholarship on the führer, and argues that Hitler saw Anglo-American global capitalism, not Bolshevism – as Germany’s real enemy. He says this philosophical link reveals worrying connections between Hitler and the rise of populism today. Brendan Simms, Professor in the History of International Relations at Cambridge University, and author of Hitler: Only the World was Enough.  




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Is the Swedish model a death sentence? And, does Australia need a post-Covid economic partnership with the US, Japan and India?

Sweden's virus experiment: death sentence, or a way forward?




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Survival across the ditch: Kiwis in Australia

We make it easy for New Zealanders to work in Australia but not so easy for them to survive in times of personal crisis. Four Kiwis tell their stories of falling between the cracks.




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Homer of the Wimmera

The fascinating life story of Homer Rieth — a composer, poet and founder of the Minyip Philosophical Society.




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Where have all the sharks gone?

In 2019, the famous flying great white sharks of South Africa’s False Bay completely disappeared, leaving locals, scientists and a booming tourism industry desperate for answers. Are shark-eating orcas or climate change to blame? Or could the answer lie across the Southern Ocean in Australia?




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The Covid Diaries – episode 1 Home

Stolen hand sanitizer, an iso wedding, losing all three of your jobs in one week – life at home in lockdown in Australia, as told through the intimate audio diaries of three women.



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Mixed blessings for Channel Country graziers as floodwater brings strong season for some but leaves others desperate

Floodwaters that crippled North Queensland's cattle industry have turned the Channel Country further downstream into a landscape of dramatic contrasts.




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Bob Pickersgill was a station hand at Bonnie Doon when he rescued the family's three-year-old daughter from a fire




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Aileen Harrison and her brother play outside their rebuilt Blackall home after it was destroyed by fire in 1940





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Cowgirl Riley O'Dell beats the boys to junior bull ride buckle, has Las Vegas rodeo in her sights

Bull riding has always been the cowboy's domain, but young cowgirl Riley O'Dell is bucking the trend and taking home prized buckles in outback Queensland.




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Total Control turns Winton into 'Hollywood of the Outback' in new ABC television series

Winton shines in the new television series, Total Control, starring Deborah Mailman and Rachel Griffiths.





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The drought is pushing rural women to breaking point, as doctors urge them to 'get help early'

RobynCaldwellisoneof thousandsof womeninrural Australiadealingwiththe falloutfromthedrought,but everyyearaspecialevent with250countrywomenin aremoteQueenslandtowngives her welcomerespite andstrategies tofightback.




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Outback Queensland pioneering single mother's daily rainfall records recognised 100 years on

When outback pioneering single mother Mary Emmott started rainfall records in 1914 she had no idea how important they would be.




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A Q&A with Mike Brown, the Fort Smith venue owner hosting first live COVID-era concert

Governor Hutchinson's May 4 directives on the re-opening of indoor and outdoor venues indicate closures will be lifted on May 18, but that's not what the event calendar at Fort Smith's Temple Live says.

The post A Q&A with Mike Brown, the Fort Smith venue owner hosting first live COVID-era concert appeared first on Arkansas Times.






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Another question for the governor: Will he move to make voting safer in November? UPDATE

Good government groups are pressing Gov. Asa Hutchinson to act now to encourage absentee voting in the November election.

The post Another question for the governor: Will he move to make voting safer in November? UPDATE appeared first on Arkansas Times.




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Arkansas Racing Commission sticks with competition for Pope County casino; Mississippi operators promise lawsuit if they don’t win

The Racing Commission had a long and open discussion but again cleared the Cherokee Nation's belated application for a casino permit in Pope County. A Mississippi casino operator says it will sue if the Cherokees win the permit.

The post Arkansas Racing Commission sticks with competition for Pope County casino; Mississippi operators promise lawsuit if they don’t win appeared first on Arkansas Times.












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The American dream: WA Indigenous stockmen train for college rodeo

A group of young Indigenous Kimberley stockmen is following the American Dream competing on the professional bull riding circuit in the US.




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Rural towns get creative as young families chase the great Australian dream

While capital cities struggle to handle their swelling populations, country towns are still crying out for more people.







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