Via Preik. The fits and starts of human achievement. The Renaissance to the Enlightenment was centuries.

A comparison of Bill Leak's cartoon on the ugly face of nationalism and a photograph of Cronulla. The ethnic fault-lines have moved, and the caricature of the violent, dumb, crass, overweight, balding suburbanite is no longer pertinent. (more)
Cam Riley: South Sea Republic. Freedom, liberty, equity and an Australian Republic.