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Irfan Yusuf is a lawyer, award-winning author, commentator and humorist. His comic memoir "Once Were Radicals: My Years As A Teenage Islamo-fascist" was published in May 2009. He currently lives in Sydney where he is completing his doctorate.

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Wednesday, September 26, 2018

CULTURE WARS: Is small-minded bigotry how we honour the Diggers? Yassmin Abdel-Magied’s tsunami in a teacup

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This concocted mass debate, like those before it and those to come, shows that we, as a nation, have no bloody idea about our values. ...

Friday, May 06, 2011

OPINION: Muddled thinking in Anzac tweet

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I spent part of the Anzac Day weekend in true Australian style at the Rooty Hill RSL Club. This huge complex in Sydney's far west incl...

Saturday, May 03, 2008

OPINION: Aussies still fighting other people's wars

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In the early hours of April 25, 1915, Australia and New Zealand entered World War 1. Neither country was being directly invaded or even thre...

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

UPDATE: Stuff published elsewhere ...

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I was busy leading upto and on ANZAC Day, having stuff published in the NZ Herald , The Press of Christchurch, ABC Unleashed and the Canbe...

Friday, April 25, 2008

ANZAC Day reflections ...

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Earlier this year, I joined a friend on a ceremonial visit to a Brisbane cemetery. Part of my friend's Sufi practice involves reminding ...

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Irf: I was born some time back. I'm currently alive. No doubt one day I'll pass away or pass out, whichever comes first. Until then, I do lawyering and writing in Australia.

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