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Yemen now needs a new kind of politics where its people must be allowed to make their own future.
Les Murray helped football transform itself from a predominantly migrant activity in Australia into what he loved to call ‘the world game’.
Andimba (Herman) Toivo Ya Toivo remained loyal to what made him the personification of the desire to live in an independent country governed by, and for, its people.
One of Australia’s most distinguished palaeontologists will be farewelled at a funeral in Canberra today.
Friend and colleague Jim Middleton pays tribute to legendary ABC journalist Mark Colvin, who has died aged 65.
South African struggle stalwart Ahmed Kathrada believed in non-racialism to his core, even as others around him began to argue for an Africanist approach.
Legendary is an overused adjective in popular culture, but Berry’s passing is a salutary reminder of what a giant in the field actually looked like.
Chuck Berry has died age 90, rightly remembered as the legend who shaped rock and roll. But his misdeeds can’t be ignored in the rush to glorify an icon.
The House of Commons’ longest-serving MP has died, aged 86.
Public health pioneer Basil Hetzel died on February 4 2017. Among other career highlights, he identified the most common cause of preventable brain damage: dietary iodine deficiency.
While Peter Mansfield didn’t have the career as a rocket scientist he craved, his contribution to humanity has been immense.
The world has lost a fantastic statistician at a time when the communication of facts is crucial.
Shirley Hazzard, who passed away this week, was one of the great prose stylists of the last 50 years. A deeply intellectual autodidact, she championed the public duty of writers and the pleasure of reading.
The Australian writer Georgia Blain, who died last week, wrote extraordinary portraits of family relationships, in luminous prose, with devastating insight. And when she became ill, she wrote about her cancer.
Peter Corrigan, one of Australia’s most influential architects, died last week. A man of endless enthusiasm and curiosity, he shaped Melbourne’s cityscape and influenced a generation of architects.
Cohen’s label declined to release the album containing Hallelujah, a song that has now inspired over 300 versions.
Over a lifetime’s work, Dario Fo stood tall and would not bow to either artistic or political compromise.
Richard Neville was a man of his times: a smart-alec student in the 60s; a drug-smoking hippie on trial in the 70s; to a family man, writer and public speaker in the 80s and 90s.
His extraordinary talent was most evident as his ‘straight guys’ became increasingly deranged.
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