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How Australia beat the gun lobby and passed gun control

How Australia beat the gun lobby and passed gun control

Lynched in effigy, but no real harm done.” The words belong to Tim Fischer, Australia’s deputy prime minister in the mid-1990s — the moment when Australia radically changed its gun laws. He used the phrase yesterday when, in the wake of the Las Vegas massacre, I asked him about the political pain involved in taking on the gun lobby read more

Do you ever get over the death of a dog?

Do you ever get over the death of a dog?

Do you ever get over the death of a dog? Right now it doesn't feel like it. Our dog Darcy was put down this week and the misery seems to fill every part of the house.
There's not a corner of the place that comes without a memory. In the bedroom, it's the memory of me reading the newspaper at the start of every day, holding the Herald with one hand as I stroked his head with the other, his outrage palpable when I tried to move my hand to turn the page. read more