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The Ruiners, by Ellena Savage
https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/The-Ruiners/Ellena-Savage/9781761638817
I was afraid to make a submission to the antisemitism royal commission. But silence has consequences too | George Newhouse | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/06/australia-antisemitism-royal-commission-submissions-racism-human-rights-ntwnfb
I work in a sector that speaks out on racism and human rights, yet on this issue I have felt the boundaries of acceptable speech narrow around me
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Part One: Dr. Sleep: The Australian Psychiatrist Who Made People Sleep Themselves To Death
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-dr-sleep-the-australian-325386876/
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Lindy West, Elizabeth Gilbert and the Nightmare of the Personal Essay Industrial Complex
https://www.pajiba.com/celebrities_are_better_than_you/lindy-west-elizabeth-gilbert-and-the-nightmare-of-the-personal-essay-industrial-complex.php?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
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Why would a patient trust a peptide more than a statin? | STAT
https://www.statnews.com/2026/04/03/peptides-statins-research-trust-bpc-157/
With peptides like BPC-157, we are seeing 'the wholesale substitution of consumer enthusiasm for clinical evidence.'
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50-Year Reread of The Lord of the Rings – 4: Pippin and Merry – Prospective Cultures
https://prospectiveculture.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/50-year-reread-of-the-lord-of-the-rings-4-pippin-and-merry/
A blog series in which I reread LOTR 50 years after I first read it, age 10, over the winter of 1975-76. Pippin and Merry come as a double act (not exactly ‘dumb and dumber’, but not a million miles from that either) in the Jackson film version of LOTR, providing both light relief and…
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When ‘the birdman’ of St James tunnel died, Sydney commuters streamed past his body for days | Housing | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/19/bikram-lama-birdman-sydney-st-james-tunnel-homelessness-ntwnfb
<strong>Exclusive: </strong>The strange and lonely death of Bikram Lama exposes a glaring gap in homelessness services. What hopes and dreams brought him to Australia, and what went wrong?
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