Nation

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Nation was an Australian fortnightly periodical, published from 1958 to 1972, when it was merged with the Sunday Review to form the Nation Review. Origins Tom Fitzgerald was the Financial Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald. Whilst retaining his post at the Herald, in 1956 he developed the idea of an independent, liberal-minded journal, as an antidote to the general conservative stuffiness of Australian print media at the time. He established Nation in 1958, installing George Munster as editor. Fitzgerald and Munster were introduced by Barry Humphries. Fitzgerald launched Nation in the same year as Sir Frank Packer launched his fortnightly news magazine Observer; they were published on alternate fortnights until 1961 when Packer merged Observer into The Bulletin. Both were printed by the quixotic Francis James's Anglican Press, for a time in the crypt of Christ Church St Laurence. Publication history The first edition was published on 26 September 1958. Nation published stories that the mainstream press was not prepared to print, such as Ken Inglis's 1959 article about Max Stuart, an Arrernte Aborigine who had been convicted of the murder of a nine-year-old girl and sentenced to death. Nation campaigned strongly against the White Australia Policy and Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War.

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“The introduction of the Christian religion into the world has produced an incalculable change in history. There had previously been only a history of nations — there is now a history of mankind; and the idea of an education of human nature as a whole, — an education the work of Jesus Christ Himself — is become like a compass for the historian, the key of history, and the hope of nations.”
— Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 141.
“The nation that can, in the next century, show the greatest output of spiritual strength, that is the nation that shall lead the world.”
— Kwamankra to Whitely, in : Studies in Race Emancipation by J. E. Casely Hayford. C.M. Phillips. 1911. p. 8.
“She gave birth to a son, a male, who is to shepherd all the nations with an iron rod. And her child was snatched away to God and to his throne.”
— John the Evangelist, Revelation 12:5, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
“The disappearance of whole nations would impoverish us no less than if all the people were to become identical, with the same character and the same face. Nations are the wealth of humanity, its generalized personalities. The least among them has its own special colors, and harbors within itself a special aspect of God's design.”
— Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Lecture, 1972
“In those days ten men out of all the languages of the nations will take hold, yes, they will take firm hold of the robe of a Jew, saying: “We want to go with you, for we have heard that God is with you people.”
— 8:23.
“Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.”
— Author unknown. Attributed to Benjamin Disraeli. Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).

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