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3 weeks ago | 
theage.com.au | Warwick McFadyen
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Every ending has a beginning. Come Anzac Day, come the marching, the speeches, the tributes, the laying of wreaths, the shaking of heads as time conquers even the bravest who served. “Lest we forget” will be said, quietly, sincerely. Salvos will cut the sky, bugles will sound the music of the military. Yet there is a parallel world that moves through this day.
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Feb 1, 2025 | 
theage.com.au | Warwick McFadyen
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Some artists sing like angels, some voices float on moonbeams and reach for the stars. From debut to last breath their song remains the same. Not so Marianne Faithfull. She began in the realms of the ethereal and then in her descent found a voice that was laced with the grit of experience, raw and unpitying. And then her voice soared.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
theage.com.au | Warwick McFadyen
Opinion January 18, 2025 — 5.30pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. They’re selling postcards of the hanging ... No, it’s not the words of William Faulkner, John Steinbeck or Jean-Paul Sartre, it’s a young man barely blown in from the American Midwest to the centre of the universe, New York.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
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Jan 5, 2025 | 
theage.com.au | Warwick McFadyen
Contributor January 6, 2025 — 7.00pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In a parallel universe I must have been a goat herder or a shepherd, or worse, a hippie. How else to explain the garment that hangs silently in the cupboard, that has hung in various cupboards for 40 years, unworn, never been seen in public, never likely to be seen in public.
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Jan 4, 2025 | 
theage.com.au | Warwick McFadyen
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. I was walking with my daughter one recent afternoon, the sun was still high enough to throw out heat, but a light southerly was taking the edge off it. We weren’t walking anywhere special, or anywhere stunningly beautiful or inspiring, just around the streets where we live.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
theage.com.au | Warwick McFadyen
Most of the time you go about your daily life, travel through the streets of habit and knowability without a thought. You’ve walked this path so many times, you know the contours of the buildings, the inner and outer landscapes of the day and night, know the habit of humdrum and the comfort created from it. There’s a safety in feeling this routine. Most people aren’t adventurers; they see in their journeys a reassurance from knowing what is around the bend.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
theage.com.au | Warwick McFadyen
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. We’ve been asking the questions you want answered since 1854. In this collection, we reflect on the tradition of courageous journalism as we look to the future.See all 11 stories. In its first issue on October 17, 1854, The Age declared on its front page what it saw as its mission. It was, in effect, its first editorial.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
theage.com.au | Warwick McFadyen
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In many parts of the world, war is the constant companion to life. Throughout history it has rendered lives to its ways of destruction and death. It is a rare thing when art blooms from its fire. The ink though is always written and drawn in tragedy. The book Muse of Fire, which details the lives of six poets who fought in World War I, details such rendering.
