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The Age Editorials

Government fails to honour Anzac values

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It is lamentable that while our fighting forces have so often protected the dignity and freedom of the downtrodden, our governments have for the past decade been demonising the downtrodden.

Not shirking the hard questions

An emaciated Somali boy is weighed next to his distraught mother.

Our job is not to sanitise what's going on in the world, but to inform, both about what's wonderful about our pale blue dot and also what's not.