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Monthly letter from the editors

The Cud Turns TWENTY YEARS OLD!

(and we have some news...)

The Cud Editors

Welcome to the 20th anniversary birthday issue of The Cud!...

(Mar 2021) There & Back:

Covid Daze

Tom Chesson

Canberra came out of lockdown...

(Oct 2005) On the Scene: The Pakistan Earthquake

Elizabeth Grady

(Feb 2006) For God, Country and Profit?

The Death of Col. Westhusing

Evan Kanarakis

(Feb 2007) Walking The Thin Line To Liberty: The American Soldier and the role of Civil Disobedience

Ben Cattell

(Apr 2008) Why I Am Not a Patriot

Jordan Richardson

(Nov 2004) From The First Issue of The Cud:

Smashed Pepper

OJ Pennington

I am sweating. It is early in the night and humid and I am chasing the deadline for this column.

(Aug 2005) Oxycontin: America's Hidden Drug Epidemic

Evan Kanarakis

Perhaps one of the most devastating drug epidemics gripping America in recent years has been abuse of the prescription drug Oxycontin, manufactured by the Conneticut'based company Purdue Pharmaceuticals L.P ('Purdue Pharma').

(Apr 2006) Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka – 15 Months On

Hamish Milne

Having read the May 2005 article by Mahesh Markus in The Cud, and travelled to all the same areas he mentioned

(Aug 2007) Lessons On The War In Iraq

Mitchell Stinson

With our current oil war winding down — no guarantees of course, President Bush recently said we’d be there “decades more”...

(Sep 2008) Welcome to Weirdsville: Fear Itself

M.Christian

As the archetypal bumper-sticker proclaims: "Being Paranoid Doesn't Mean That They Aren't Out To Get You."...

(Sep 2009) The 1989 Ashes Revisited

Cameron O’Neill

The 2009 Ashes Series was not memorable for Australians...

(Aug 2010) D.H Lawrence Was A Dog Lover And So Am I

Kirsten Moore

I recently read a quote by D. H. Lawrence...

(Mar 2012) Postcard From Africa:

Darkness on the Hills

Wilfred Finn

Since the maps of the ancient Greeks, the ‘Mountains of the Moon’ have been marked...

(Jan 2011) On Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'

Ivan Head

Mary Shelley’s story is profoundly modern...

(Mar 2013) I Do Not Know Anymore...

Zend Lakdavala

I do not know, anymore, what to write, what to say...

(Oct 2014) 1 Father, 3 Sons, 1 Yacht and a Lot of Wet Country

Sailing the Whitsundays- Part I

Christopher W. Harris

Windy weather and horizontal rain...

(Jun 2015) Keeping It Together:

Working It Out

Daniela Ifandoudas

Having had triplets...

(Jul 2016) The CC Photo Files: Maine

Caitlin Cunningham

Nearly thirty years ago, my godparents purchased a decaying log cabin in rural Maine...

(Jun 2017) In Response To Margaret Court

Rev. Neil Ericksson

Most open-minded, kind-hearted people whether gay or straight...

(Dec 2018) There And Back:

A Week In The Life of Me

Tom Chesson

I took these shots on my phone...

(Apr 2019) Cud Flashes In The Pan

Two Bits for Eight Bits

David M. Fitzpatrick

I was born in 1969, so my preteen and teen years were spent plugging quarters into arcade games...

(Mar 2020) Ezy Reading:

The City That Sleeps

Evan Kanarakis

Let’s start by asserting the obvious: perspective is everything...

(Sep 2021) An Exercise In Self-Care:

The Stress Audit

Horatio O'Shea

Like so many, I've recently been reflecting on these extraordinary times...

(Jun 2022) The Global Significance of the Greek Language

Part I

Dr George Kanarakis

Within the multinational, multilingual and multicultural history of Europe...

(May 2023) Right Royal Sleight of Hand

Tony Smith

It is quite clear why monarchists wanted the new king...

(Jan 2024) Eighteen More

David M. Fitzpatrick

If you’re not an American, imagine that you are...

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