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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Paul Daley
Taungurung man Larry Walsh has more reasons than many to be angry. When he was just two-and-a-half the state took him and his sisters from their home, a riverside hut at Mooroopna, northern Victoria, where he was being cared for by his nana while his mum was in hospital. From there he went to a series of children’s homes. By the age of eight he was living with a foster family in which the father was a violent drinker.
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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Paul Daley
The official commemorations for Australian military personnel who’ve died on the battlefield or whose lives were marred due to war service have long been adorned with ecclesiastical language. Friday’s services across the country are the most profound cases in point even though, after almost , many Australians may have become culturally inured to the way our national remembrance has become – and remains – so imbued with religiously inflected rhetoric.
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3 weeks ago |
msn.com | Paul Daley
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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Paul Daley
The soft early evening spring light floods the room behind the world champion you’ve probably never heard of. In front of a big poster of a shirtless Bruce Lee adorning her wall, Diana Prazak smiles and laughs often as she talks about her most unlikely career and her road to the top.
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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Paul Daley
For Christians, Easter is a remarkable time of new life, of resurrection and spiritual renewal. But those of a more secular persuasion can also find themselves beguiled by the restorative zeitgeist of this celebratory time of year. In the northern hemisphere it’s spring, with its green shoots and brighter light. Down here, deep in the southern hemisphere, the transition is of a gentle autumnal splendour – of softer skies and a flourish of bronze in the deciduous treetops.
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