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Old Age Without Wretchedness’: Thomas Paine’s Vision of Growing Old
Final Public Lecture, Tom Paine 200 Celebrations, Thetford, 7 November 2009, Norfolk Summary Written during a period when the gap between rich and poor was fast widening in post-Jacobin France, Thomas Paine’s Agrarian Justice opposed to Agrarian Law, and to Agrarian Monopoly (1795/6) is among his most far-sighted writings. It sketched an entirely original plan for [...]
Maralinga’s Afterlife
The Age, May 11 2003 At Maralinga, the British Government treated Aborigines, Australian servicemen and even its own troops as scientific guinea pigs. John Keane , whose father was there, looks at the dirty games that were played in the desert of South Australia. PDF Version Here Listen to Audio __________________________________________ Len Beadell stood among [...]