From Robert Mugabe to Alexander Downer:Jeremy Hearder retires after 65 years as a diplomat

From Robert Mugabe to Alexander Downer:Jeremy Hearder retires after 65 years as a diplomat

Few people could work the same job for 65 years and not get bored. But Jeremy Hearder did – and he got to criss-cross the world doing it.

  • byJames Massola

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Hang the technologist!

As DJs,they make great health professionals.

Use-by date on the Commonwealth looks to be up

Use-by date on the Commonwealth looks to be up

Is the Commonwealth still fit for purpose in the 21st century?

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Pudding the Yorkshire in Zimbabwe
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Pudding the Yorkshire in Zimbabwe

And a new library bowls'em over.

Bid to engineer pathway for women at UTS is ‘absurd’
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Bid to engineer pathway for women at UTS is ‘absurd’

The perception will remain that the women in the course are not as academically worthy as the men,even if they are the best and brightest in their cohort.

Mugabe:how the bread basket of Africa became a basket-case
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Mugabe:how the bread basket of Africa became a basket-case

Like too many liberation leaders,Mugabe descended into a morass of predictable and tiresome psychoses brought on by a love of power.

  • byNicholas McGowan
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Zimdancehall:music that reflects troubled country’s frustrations

Zimdancehall:music that reflects troubled country’s frustrations

The story of Zimbabwe's decline can be told by politicians,rights activists and economists. But it can also be narrated through the lyrics of Zimdancehall music.

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The anticlimactic death of a man who ruined the country I call home
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The anticlimactic death of a man who ruined the country I call home

For years,I witnessed first-hand how the gears of his repressive regime ground.

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Teacher,prisoner and strongman:A timeline of Robert Mugabe’s life

Teacher,prisoner and strongman:A timeline of Robert Mugabe’s life

Mugabe was born in British-ruled Southern Rhodesia in 1924 and,after rising to power in 1980,sought to rule Zimbabwe for life.

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Former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe dead at 95

Former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe dead at 95

The former president was forced to resign in 2017 after a 37-year rule,his early promise eroded by economic turmoil,disputed elections and human rights violations.

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Zimbabwe's Mugabe emerges,rejects Mnangagwa in election

Zimbabwe's Mugabe emerges,rejects Mnangagwa in election

Zimbabwe's former leader has emerged to address the nation for the first time since stepping down in November and just hours before Monday's historic election.