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Australia Post’s letter business has been in terminal decline, but its ‘community service obligations’ mean it has to find a way to keep delivering them.
The Arch of Reunification has been destroyed – reversing decades of government policy targeting eventual reunification with the South.
The title was last held by a Welshman in the 1400s.
The little changes people may experience following the death of the Queen.
Barns are practical buildings, designed to safeguard farm animals and equipment. Why are so many of them painted to stand out from the landscape?
Gwoja Tjungurrayi features on our $2 coin and was the first living Australian to feature on a postage stamp. It turns out he made his stamp debut much earlier.
Chinese American physicist Wu worked on the Manhattan Project and performed groundbreaking experiments throughout her long career.
A new set of postage stamps pays tribute to the male voices of Australian sports commentary - but there have long been female sports broadcasters and their voices are getting louder.
For most of us stamps have become infrequent objects of daily life but they continue to be produced, and collected by devotees – so what do they say about us as a nation?
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Dennis Altman is a Friend of The Conversation.Vice Chancellor's Fellow and Professorial Fellow, Institute for Human Security and Social Change, La Trobe University
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