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Keywords: Ryan Report

  • AUSTRALIA

    Remembering a hanging

    • Peter Norden
    • 27 February 2007
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    Forty years ago Ronald Ryan had a noose put around his neck by the prison hangman. With the authority of the Victorian State Government, its then Premier, Henry Bolte, and the Victorian Supreme Court he was killed. Ryan was the last man hanged in Australia, and many believe he will always retain that infamous privilege.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    On disc

    • Juliette Hughes, Maryanne Confoy
    • 03 July 2006

     Juliette Hughes reviews the John Butler Trio’s Living 2001-2002 and The Liszt Album, and Maryanne Confoy reviews Australia’s Religious Communities.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Who cares about the facts?

    • Moira Rayner
    • 18 June 2006

    More evidence emerges for the stolen generation.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Operation in progress

    • Peter Davis
    • 11 May 2006

    Peter Davis examines progress on the road to peace in the Solomon Islands

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