Category: Features
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Up all night to get Hockey; the puffed-up reputation of Smokin’ Joe.
During my internship at a certain independent online publication last month, I was asked by one of the editors if I could track down some clue as to the whereabouts of our beloved Treasurer. It was the first week of a new, unpredictable Senate and Joe Hockey was nowhere to be seen, having taken a…
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Behind the pixels – the human cost of the Islamic State’s social media war
Warning: this post contains graphic images. You’ve seen the picture by now. An Australian boy, no older than seven, holding up the severed head of a Syrian soldier – the latest victim of the Islamic State’s brutal war of conquest in Iraq and the Levant. Below the picture, the proud words of his father, convicted…
Paul Millar 