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Just another witch hunt

Should we really ostracise the opera singer Tamar Iveri?

28 June 2014

9:00 AM

28 June 2014

9:00 AM

One of the most admirable things about Australia is that no witches were ever burnt here. As Nick Cater has pointed out, where Oz’s close cousins America and Britain must bear the historical stain of having once strapped eccentric women to stakes and set them alight, Australia, being a nation founded after the Enlightenment, has no such smoky track record.

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