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Dear Paulie, what happened 50 years ago today was a terrible part of war. These lines are intended to be sung to the tune of Waltzing Matilda: War Is A Killer. War Is A Killer. Berbunyi merdeka atau mati. And their ghosts can be heard in all our talk of Balibo. War Is A Killer…
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The fall of Damascus to overwhelming British imperial forces on October 1, 1918, was a crucial moment in the end of the Ottoman Empire. Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Charles Niquet Olden, born in Ballarat in 1881, lead the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) mounted soldiers into the city. Historian Amanda Bentley writes in “Ballarat & District in the…
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(Please see below for copyright details of the above work called “Freedom”) Prayer For A New Mother: “The things she knew, let her forget again-/The voices in the sky, the fear, the cold ….. Let her have laughter with her little one/Teach her the endless, tuneless songs to sing,” – Dorothy Parker, born on this…
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Phyllis Schlafly, born on this day in 1924 in St Louis, Missouri, USA, was a staunch defender of the rights of women to be mothers. “I nursed my babies. I was a full-time homemaker. I taught them all how to read before I let them go to school.” and “Anyone with a child knows that…
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In his forgotten people radio speech on the 22nd of May, 1942, Robert Menzies said: “I do not believe that the real life of this nation is to be found either in great luxury hotels and the petty gossip of so-called fashionable suburbs, or in the officialdom of organized masses. It is to be found…
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I read today in cathnews.com, that newly re-elected Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is now claiming that his government is a symbol for what he is calling “progressive patriotism”. I will now quote some phrases from the cathnews article and comment how these words relate to the reality of Anthony Albanese and the Australian Labor…
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Last Friday I had a very enlightening experience at an alleged educational institution in Australia. In this angry satirical piece, I will refer to this “school” as RMIT (Randomly Myopic Institute of Torture). I was treated like a security problem because of my “appearance”. The words of the security guy himself for interrogating me were…
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