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Is a biennial indigenous festival in Taiwan an attempt to atone for the grim truth of a people’s extinction?

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“Being a millennial, I have a smartphone and doomscrolling addiction. This group of semiretired Byzantine scholars is an...
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“Being a millennial, I have a smartphone and doomscrolling addiction. This group of semiretired Byzantine scholars is an antidote. I long for such dedication in my own day.” Lily Chan meets a group of semiretired academics

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“On Friday and Saturday night, in inner-city Braddon, it is difficult to distinguish between backfiring and fireworks. Day and night, you hear screeching burnouts punctured by the occasional melodic horns of ‘La Cucaracha’.” Tom Glassey at Summernats

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Lily Chan joins her neighbour’s semiretired academics group: “Sharing time with the scholars is like watching them buy lollies in a shop while I press my nose against the glass, watching from the outside. I am an anthropological voyeur.”

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“She got her own name and date of birth right, but was vague about who our then current prime minister was. As it was Jo...
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“She got her own name and date of birth right, but was vague about who our then current prime minister was. As it was John Howard, I didn’t blame her for having blotted it out.” Shaun Micallef on his grandmother’s dementia

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“We are excited to greet the spirits of the ta’ay, of course. But we are also nervous of them. And when it is over, we w...
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“We are excited to greet the spirits of the ta’ay, of course. But we are also nervous of them. And when it is over, we want to make sure that they go away.” A Taiwanese indigenous elder talks to Margaret Simons about a dark myth now being rethought

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Shaun Micallef on some precious family memories: “As I got older, so did my grandmother.”

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This annual car festival, which has run for almost 40 years in Canberra, is loud.

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