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Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 90th anniversary of the Nazi’s coming to power. The atrocities they would go on to commit were unprecedented and on such a scale that the innumerable details are still coming to light.
The anti-Semitism that culminated in the horrors of the concentration camps and the murder of six million Jews was the most visible manifestation of their obsession with eugenics and racial purity, but there were many other victims of their appalling ideology.
As Amanda Tink reminds us, disabled people were immediately targeted by the regime. Vulnerable and perceived as inferior, they were subjected to the same kinds of violent oppression the Nazis directed against Jewish people. The organisations that supported them were dismantled, discriminatory laws were passed, and they were targeted for extermination.
The historical facts Tink sets out with plainspoken eloquence in her moving essay are heartbreaking but essential reading. “These events are important to remember,” she writes – “not only as history, but as an example of how short the path from exclusion to murder can be.”
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James Ley
Deputy Books + Ideas Editor
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Amanda Tink, Western Sydney University
In 2023, International Holocaust Remembrance Day marks 90 years since the Nazis assumed power. Disabled people were the first Holocaust victims; Nazi programs discriminated against and murdered them.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The challenges in Alice Springs shot to prominence just as the debate about the Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum is becoming more difficult for Albanese.
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Lindy Willmott, Queensland University of Technology; Ben White, Queensland University of Technology; Katrine Del Villar, Queensland University of Technology
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Lin Schwarzkopf, James Cook University
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Liz Giuffre, University of Technology Sydney
Molly Meldrum is not a slick player, but a fan.
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Grant Duncan, Massey University
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Anthony Montgomery, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Beth Younger, Drake University
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Matthew James Collins, University of Cambridge; Beatrice Demarchi, Università di Torino; Gifford Miller, University of Colorado Boulder
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The Ukrainian president’s corruption purge will be important both for public morale and for reassuring his western allies.
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Sam Baron, Australian Catholic University
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Kelly-Ann Allen, Monash University; Beatriz Gallo Cordoba, Monash University; Fiona Longmuir, Monash University; Michael Phillips, Monash University
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