The Spencer Street End

The Spencer Street End

The Exhaustion of Being the Content

The quiet labour of First Nations people during racist controversies.

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Daniel James
Jun 05, 2026
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Travis Lovett and the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

The land of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples is a beautiful place. A century of reordering the landscape, to make it symmetrical to the human condition, to plant order where European eyes could see none, has failed to tame the natural beauty of the panoramic country cradling Canberra.

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