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Macquarie Group and National Museum of Australia launch Warrane exhibition
Macquarie Group is hosting a new exhibition in its Martin Place office, curated by the National Museum of Australia in collaboration with Indigenous strategy and design agency Balarinji. The exhibition, Warrane, is centred around the idea of place, exploring Gadigal custodianship of Country and the influence that Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie had on the physical shape and identity of Sydney. Macquarie’s 50 Martin Place office is located on Gadigal Country and Warrane is the Sydney language word for Sydney Cove.
While acknowledging the negative effects of British occupation on Aboriginal people in Sydney, Warrane focuses on the agency and resilience of Aboriginal people in the area by exploring Gadigal connection to and Custodianship of Country.
Undermining IPC betrays Barilaroâs deeper loyalties
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The Independent Planning Commission has rejected the application of the Dendrobium mine expansion saying the project risked irreversible damage to Sydneyâs drinking water (âBarilaro rakes IPC over coals on mine rulingâ, February 6-7). Deputy Premier John Barilaro, not happy with this outcome, wants to shoot the umpire, overturn the result and disband the IPC, leaving the decision to the experts in NSW Planning (who deemed the mines âapprovableâ last year) before any serious environmental investigation took place. I would like to thank the good people at WaterNSW, who have taken a strong, science-based opposition to the project because of the expected draining of swamps, and subsidence and cracking and damage to water quality. An appro
Heroine Elizabeth Macquarie dared to defy fake news 200 years ago
February 5, 2021 11.08pm
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Fake news is a cancer that has the power to eat away at the foundations of a democracy, and bring it crashing down if it’s allowed to fester unchecked. We’ve seen its effects in the United States, but we have evidence of its devastating power closer to home too. Two hundred years ago this month, fake news had a massive impact on Australia.
Back then, there were even fewer people prepared to stand up and call it out than there are today among the cowed, power-hungry Republicans in the US. And it demonstrates the dangers of standing by and letting those with the loudest voices and most craven ambitions prevail, and to hell with the consequences – whether they’re spreading their fetid lies around government, racism, COVID-19, asylum-seekers … anyone and anything.
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