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Boston is a city of firsts. It is home to the first publicly supported free municipal library in the world, Boston Public Library, and the first US subway, the “T.” The city boasts America’s first public park, Boston Common, and first public secondary...

Over the last ten days, I’ve been travelling and working on the road with my family. The first week, the hubby, the kids, my mum and sis travelled from Adelaide to Robe, with a stop at Meningie where we had a picnic next to Lake Albert. Oh, and a quick...

Local libraries often claim to play an important community role. That role has expanded to hurting local small businesses that used to supply them. Revenue that would have remained in the community now hits the overseas bank account of Zinio. A deal...

This is a transcript of the 2013 Newman Lecture delivered on Wednesday at Monash University’s Mannix College. Let me quote a much-respected contemporary Australian scholar and philosopher, Raimond Gaita. [W]e must preserve the unworldly space...

September 17 marks the maiden voyage of the first paddle-steamer down the Murray River, in 1853. The Murray is Australia’s longest river at 2508 km long; it has its source in the Alps, meanders across the southern inland plains where it forms most...