A Commentary on Edmund Burke: Philosopher, Politician, Prophet. The meeting of Edmund Burke’s Club at the Savage Club, Melbourne, on 7 February was largely taken up by Gerard Wilson’s commentary on Part One of Jesse Norman’s  recent book, Edmund Burke: Philosopher, Politician, Prophet.
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I have a number of books on the First Fleet and the first settlement on Sydney Cove in 1788. Let me take the titles of three of those books. There is a set of two: The First Fleet: The Convict Voyage that Founded Australia (1982) and The First Settlement: The Convict Village that Founded Australia 1788-90 (1984), both by journalist and academic Jonathan King...
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When the conflict in Syria broke out some two years ago, most ordinary Australians who followed the media reports and typically have only a vague idea of the motivations driving the deadly conflicts in the Islamic world, would surely have gained the impression that Bashar al-Assad was the big baddie in the conflict.
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