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What’s Australia like? A sizeable question, but a young Argentine student who has returned home to Buenos Aires after a year in Australia has given his report: he was so lulled into contentment that he felt he had to leave.
Carlos Miceli, 24, had planned to study in Australia for three years but pulled up stumps two years early. He expresses deep affection for the people and place but found a country with too many rules and too little to engage the socially or intellectually curious.
His views, recently posted on his website, will cause some people to say: “Then don’t come back.” That would prove his point.
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It’s Tuesday at The Punch
A fitting piece of history for this week. Isabel Peron became the first female president of Argentina, today in 1974.
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stephen says:
She looks like Julie Andrews. Without the jewels. Read more »
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T.Chong says:
Dear old Eva was a fascist. I vaguely remember that she was actually deposed, due to the heavy handed measures she used to implement her hard right policies. Despite the propaganda value of a song, she was no hard done by Madonna. - she was the ruler of a country… Read more »
History looks inevitable because we’ve lived it; we think it happened that way because it had to happen that way.
But history is really a series of hinge points, choices taken and not taken, each of which could have changed the future a little. Even the most insignificant can make a massive difference.
Everyone knows, for instance, that the First World War was triggered by the assassination of Archduke Franz Fedinand at Sarajevo. What most people forget is that the killing only happened after the assassination attempt proper had failed; and that the gunman Gavrilo Princip only got his chance on his way home, because the Archduke’s driver took a wrong turn and stalled the car.
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S.L says:
Great article Mark. If you look through history it is full of chance meetings and conversations like Mr Fraser described. I remember seeing a program on TV years ago about if JFK survived Dallas. It looked at implications of the escalating Bay of Pigs drama and Russia and the USA… Read more »
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Dave in Perth says:
Tony & SN Give it up. Anyone who makes the case that FOX news is anything other than a the PR arm of political conservatives is either lying to you or riding on the short bus. Either way, you can’t win. Facts and reality are irrelevant to these people. Same… Read more »
It’s Wednesday @ The Punch
Fact: today in 1955 Argentine President Juan Domingo Peron was deposed in a military coup.
Peron came to power in 1946 with strong support from the working classes. He was celebrated for nationalising business and giving women the right to vote but heavily criticised for increasingly authoritarian policies as the economy began to fail.
Peron had three wives but it was Eva Peron his second wife who was adored by Argentinians and believed to hold the real power in his leadership.
He returned to power in 1973 and served for 12 months before his death in 1974.
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pc says:
Hi Lucy, just a question, someone may know the answer. Why is it that in countries such as Argentina, and I may be wrong but I had associated it with a lot of machismo, you often find such powerful women? (I’m also thinking of say Benazir Bhutto, sorry didnt spell… Read more »
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