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Economically, practically and politically, nuclear just does not stack up for Australia with its clear blue skies and plentiful winds.

Why do seemingly rational people, given the opportunity to make the world a better place, want to spend their lives achieving nothing?

Tone Wheeler Formidable designer Derek Wrigley, passed away last month, aged 97. You can find his obituary on the ArchitectureAU website and the DIA’s (Design Institute of Australia) website. I knew and worked with Derek for some years in Canberra and I think his design interests were so broad and deep that his exploits could have filled four lives. Architect Derek Wrigley graduated in architecture from the Manchester College of Art in 1945 and worked briefly in the UK before emigrating to Au...

Amazing Grace, a worthy winner who speaks to truth January 27, 2021 — 12.04am Save Normal text size Credit: One couldn’t ask for a better person for the Australian of the Year gong than well-deserving Grace Tame, the first Tasmanian to receive one (“Change the date, says Grace”, January 26). She is not going to muck around. In the little time she’s been in the public eye, Tame has already said what most of us feel — change the Australia Day date. I can’t wait...