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Best Rock n Roll Speeches of the 2000s
I sent this newsletter a while ago, but it's timeless. What's your favourite rock speech? Tell me in the comments. If you like this newsletter or…
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'They are the martyred heroines of a holy crusade for freedom and human dignity'
On Sunday 15 September 1963 four Klansmen bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. Four young girls died. Martin Luther King delivered…
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Allan Jeans' 'Pay the Price' — most popular podcast episode
Episode 2 of the podcast has 5000+ downloads and is the most popular episode so far. It's about footy coach Allan Jeans and his 1989 Grand Final speech…
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Good-bye Jacinda
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Australian dream, Twitter nightmare
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'Blow your mummas a kiss!' Footy Mum Julie McCreery's magnificent pre-game address
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'I thank you for not moving' —Oprah's eulogy for Rosa Parks
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The Dame is dead
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Famous speeches of 9-11
This is a newsletter I wrote a few years ago, updated slightly. My thoughts with American readers today. Twenty two years.
Surely this will be the last opportunity I have to address you
In a few days, it will be 50 years since Salvador Allende delivered his final broadcast to the nation, minutes before he died in his office. It may have…
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[REPOST] "I’m lucky — at age of 98, I’m still able to do what I promised to do"
Abram Goldberg turns 99 in a couple of weeks. He gave an eyewitness account of an infamous Lodz ghetto speech by Chief Elder Chaim Rumkowski, delivered…
In defence of the humanities and 'humans doing' — Kate Mulvany's commencement classic
On Fathers' Day 2017, actor Kate Mulvany delivered one of the great commencements to humanities students at Curtin University.
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'Norway is you. Norway is us' — King Harald V's Garden Party Welcome, 2016
I'm no monarchist, but this one from September 1st 2016 is a bloody lovely speech by Norway's monarch, about inclusion, difference, the national…
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It's 'I have a dream' day
In the USA, it's still the 28th of August, and the 60th anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King Jr's 'I have a dream' speech.
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NEW PODCAST EPISODE #50 — 'Men, you have ten minutes to live, and I will lead you'
Former Leader of the Opposition, Dr Brendan Nelson was Director of the Australian War Memorial from 2012-19. He is a master storyteller when it comes to…
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