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The Hermit

Christmas especially is when many of us stop thinking of ourselves and think of others instead.

What if someone cancelled Christmas?

When Islamic State seized a large swathe of Iraq in 2014, Mosul's many Assyrian Christians were condemned to a living hell that made our petty Christmas squabbles in Australia seem insignificant.

Veterans face the ultimate indignity

The suicide rate among war veterans is higher than in the general population.

It is hard sitting with a veteran - someone decorated for bravery, no less - when he tells you he has been thinking of taking his life. Gut-wrenching though it was, I wasn't surprised. I had seen this coming for months, and his wife was doing it.

Channel Country: The greatest nature show on Earth

Queensland's Channel Country is a world of colour seen by too few eyes.

In the barely perceptible depressions that make up the Channel Country, nature has come to life in abundance. Weeks of steady rain have flood the plains around the Cooper, stirring life from deep beneath the stony soil, and transforming the landscape.

Brisbane laughing all the way to the Brexit

Brisbane should be laughing after the Brexit vote in Britain.

Never since we last clean swept the Poms in the Ashes has Britain provided so much mirth as watching the Brexit vote. The self-imagined suffering of the London elites when put in their place by ordinary men and women is a joy to behold. The caterwauling does not stop.