The best of both worlds? How Australia’s unique democracy evolved
Small communities can practise direct democracy: people meet and decide, or vote, on decisions concerning them all. In large ...
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Lyndall Ryan´s interest in the history of Australia has grown since her early days as ... which included acknowledgment of massacres committed by European settlers in the early days of the nation. Her ...
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Who was Siva Singh? Uncovering the early Sikh settler who fought the White Australia policy
Gathering of Sikhs on Siva Singh's property in 1920 for the first full Australian reading of ... a hawker, an early Sikh settler and a civil rights campaigner, was quite a well-known local man ...
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'Bush Diwan': Exhibition shedding light on the early Sikh settler who fought the White Australia policy
An exhibition shines a light on little-known moments in Australian migrant history ... a hawker, an early Sikh settler and a civil rights campaigner, was quite a well-known local man, and if ...