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...cowardice, not only through his books but in the letters and diaries that make up the Jack Fingleton Papers, stored in 27 boxes at the State Library of New South Wales. These documents, which include chummy correspondence with several Australian Prime Ministers, were a boon for Fingleton's biographer, Sydney journalist Greg Growden, who's written a book that would have Bradman, topical again in the centenary of his birth, turning in his grave...
...Swinburne's panic-online and ptsd-online have been joined by e-Couch, for mood disorders, and MoodGYM, for depression, from the Australian National University's Centre for Mental Health Research, and by the Climate suite of programs from the Anxiety Disorders Research Unit at St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney. The Australian Department of Health is now funding Swinburne's National e-Therapy Centre for Anxiety Disorders, which will soon offer CBT treatment via anxietyonline.org.au...
...still there. 14. FM: If not writing, what’s next? CD: I’m now working on a PhD in anthropology at New York University. My PhD work is in the politics of climate change. I’m going to look at New York and Sydney and how cities are adapting to change, how they justify what they do, and how we witness it. 15. FM: So, are you’re leaving the literary world for academia?CD: The tricky thing now is I have to decide whether to take myself seriously as a writer...
...sheer scale of the carnage cannot be denied. Sydney Schanberg, then the New York Times's South Asia correspondent, described the month-long Pakistani crackdown in March 1971 as "a pogrom on a vast scale" in a land where "vultures grow fat." (He would famously win a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting five years later on Cambodia's killing fields.) Passing through the charred husks of villages razed by West Pakistani troops, he heard whispered story after story of mass executions of Hindus, college students and anybody suspected of Bengali nationalism. Neighborhoods were gutted as Bangladesh's main cities fell...
Sure, here are a few: In Sydney, Australia, a riot was sparked one summer day in 2004 by the rumor that an aboriginal boy on a bicycle had been chased by police and died after he was tragically impaled on a spiked fence; the rumor incited a group of 200 youths to throw home-made explosives at police, 40 of whom were injured in the melee. The late Saddam Hussein regularly spread rumors to discourage resistance to his dictatorship. In light of this, rumors that he possessed weapons of mass destruction may ironically have first originated from Hussein himself...