63rd Round Table Forum of Western Heritage Australia. Evening of the 6th August 2024. Held in the Jubilee Room, NSW Parliament House, 6 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW.
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62nd Round Table Forum of Western Heritage Australia. Evening of the 7th May 2024. Held in the Jubilee Room, NSW Parliament House, 6 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW.
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61st Round Table Forum of Western Heritage Australia. Evening of the 20th February 2024. Held in the Henry Carmichael Theatre, Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt St, Sydney NSW.
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60th Round Table Forum of Western Heritage Australia. Evening of the 12th September 2023. Held in the Henry Carmichael Theatre, Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt St, Sydney NSW.
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59th Round Table Forum of Western Heritage Australia. Evening of the 30th May 2023. Held in the Henry Carmichael Theatre, Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt St, Sydney NSW.
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56th Round Table Forum of Western Heritage Australia. Evening of the 20th September 2022. Held in the Jubilee Room, NSW Parliament House, 6 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW.
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54th Round Table Forum of Western Heritage Australia. Evening of the 29th March 2022. Held in the Henry Carmichael Theatre, Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt St, Sydney NSW.
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It is better that ten guilty persons go free than that one innocent suffer.
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Australians largely take their freedoms for granted, not realising the importance of the unbroken chain back to the English common law, the key agreements, and the system of governance which underpin that liberty. How fragile are those freedoms? It is not inconceivable that they could disappear in a generation if the cultural memory is lost, supplanted by disruptive ideologies or loss of pride in our Western inheritance.
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The purpose of this short vignette is to introduce you to some of the jargon of Critical Social Justice. The difficulty in understanding someone versed in Critical Theory is that the words used are often identical to the commonly used words, but with completely different meanings and obscured subtext.
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In 1854, the eminent folklorist Joseph Jacobs was born in Sydney, New South Wales, though his working life was spent abroad – predominantly in England and the U.S.A. He wished that English speaking children could read tales which had emerged from the folklore of the British Isles, rather than those of the continent made popular by Charles Perrault in the 17th century, and the Grimm Brothers in the first half of the 19th century. Jacobs lamented that Perrault’s genius displayed in Cinderella and Puss in Boots had ousted the English classics of Catskin and Childe Rowland. Likewise, Tom-Tit-Tot had given way to Grimm’s Rumpelstiltschen and The Three Sillies to Hänsel and Gretel.
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On this day 330 years ago in 1689, Royal ascent was given to the English Bill of rights which laid out the rights of parliament, the limitations on the Monarch as well as certain civil rights and liberties of subjects, such the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. The Bill was presented to William of […]
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38th Round Table Forum of Western Heritage Australia. Evening of the 21st February 2017. Held in the Jubilee Room, NSW Parliament House, 6 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW.
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37th Round Table Forum of Western Heritage Australia. Evening of the 18th October 2018. Held in the Jubilee Room, NSW Parliament House, 6 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW.
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