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Tag: Australia

LGBTQ+ internationalism beyond 2020

27th November 202027th November 2020Robert Macilraith

Image description: pride protest march at night Globally, 2020 has been a historic year for LGBTQ+ people. Alongside the Pope updating his stance on same-sex civil unions (something I wrote about earlier this term), we’ve also seen a ‘rainbow wave’ in the US, with more LGBTQ+ people elected than ever before. However, as queer people […]

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A nation blinded by bushfire

17th January 202020th January 2020Jackie Brown

Jackie Brown reflects on the climate crisis close to home. On my journey home this Christmas Vacation, my plane descended into a landscape I no longer recognised. An unfamiliar sky where clouds had been replaced by a thick, impenetrable blanket that seemed to be suffocating everything beneath it. A blurred, dark outline of a city […]

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It’s time to re-think healthcare

14th January 202015th November 2020Robert Macilraith

Image description: The John Radcliffe Maternity Hospital For many, the NHS is the jewel in the British crown. ‘Envy of the world’, ‘the national religion’, it is difficult to overstate its importance. For decades, the health service has been used as a particularly poignant political football. Recent years have perfectly exemplified this. Who could the […]

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Speakers for the Oxford Union’s Annual Open Period announced

1st October 2018Adithi Shenava

Image Credit: US Department of State (Public Domain) The Oxford Union’s annual Open Period is set to include speaker events with Tony Abbott, the former Australian Prime Minister, Professor Richard Swinburne, Jo Malone, and Jude Law. During the annual Open period, which will take place until the 18th October, any student with a Bod card […]

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A crying game: disgraced sports stars and public confessions

2nd April 20182nd April 2018Connor Thirlwell

“I am very sorry.” Glum-faced Australian fast bowler Cameron Bancroft, who was last week spotted by the television cameras illegally tampering with the ball on the field of play with a yellow strip of sandpaper – an offence which has since prompted crisis in Australian cricket – gives a sombre statement to the world’s press. […]

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The long read: Australia’s ball-tampering nightmare

30th March 201830th March 2018Dom Bennett

On the third day of the third Test yesterday between South Africa and Australia in Cape Town, a Test series already dogged by controversy became even more contentious. Australia took to the field with Steven Smith as their captain, David Warner as their vice-captain, and Cameron Bancroft as a promising but relatively untried Test match […]

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An Interview with Josef Salvat

19th September 201320th September 2013Joseph Ingham

Australian singer songwriter Josef Salvat has been described as “the male Lana Del Rey” and is the darling of music bloggers across the globe. Yet his website is virtually barren and his tweets are short, sweet and often cryptic. “I’ve never really been comfortable communicating a lot online” Salvat explains, “I am used to feeding […]

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Rowers down under

8th February 20138th February 2013Charley Turton

OUWBC rowers Anastasia Chitty and Maxie Scheske relive their tour of Oz with Charley Turton

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“Ugo for autumn glory”, Lancaster tells Monye

10th November 2012George Colenutt

As chill winds and broken boilers herald the arrival of November in Oxford, the return of international rugby to JCR TV screens across the university is a welcome ray of light in the afternoon gloom (so long as you can expunge any prospective Strictly-watchers from the room). The snappily-named QBE Autumn Internationals begin for England […]

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Profile: John Howard

14th June 201212th July 2012Ayesha Jhunjhunwala and Lachlan McNamee

For the real Australians and Jubilee-philes among you, you will have noticed that former Australian Prime Minister John Howard just received the Order of Merit from the Queen, which is held by only 24 living people for distinguished services to the Commonwealth. Having managed to make some time for a packed Union in the midst […]

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Can India Triumph Down Under?

27th January 2012Charles Walmsley

Monish Kulkarni thinks India can avoid a whitwash in the fourth test against Australia

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Warne dumps cricket for Hurley

6th June 20116th June 2011John Harkness

Conor Gibson laments the departure of one of the game’s greats: Shane Warne

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