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55th Battalion On The 8th March 1916
2,236 wordsJoseph King was born 25th July 1886 at Bulli NSW Australia. His father, Edward, was born in Surrey England in 1842 and migrated to Australia with his family during the gold rush to Hill End NSW in 1861. His mother, Jane, was born in 1852 at Portland Head on the Hawkesbury River in NSW. His father had a previous to Rebecca Maris who bore him four children and died having a fifth. Two of those children subsequently died on the goldfields. He was one of seven born by Jane and was the second younges...
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Frank And Archie
943 wordsGallipoli is the remarkable story of two Western Australian mates who are sent to Gallipoli in 1915. Frank and Archie are both very successful sprinters and Archie wants adventure, while Frank wants to stay in Australia, but signs up for the inventory anyway. This story brings back some harsh truths about warfare, and explains why so many na " ive young men joined up, only to suffer deaths well before their time. The troops were headed for the Gallipoli peninsula and the Dardanelles Strait, in s...
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Hours Before Carey's True History
1,291 wordsPrize fight Tomorrow night, Peter Carey will take his seat at a table at the Guildhall in London to see if this year's Booker prize judges agree with the bookmakers and bestow one of the literary world's most coveted awards on his True History of the Kelly Gang. Nine thousand miles away, another Australian author will have cause to watch Carey's reaction to the result particularly closely. Two weeks ago, Frank Moorhouse was the victim of a blunder dreaded by authors and literary-prize organisers...
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Skase's Passport
480 wordsIn the early 1980's a young confident man named Christopher Charles Skase became world famous by amassing a list of assets including a multi-million dollar company called Quintex, the channel 7 network, Mirage resorts and a number of extravagant houses across the world. Christopher Skase was born on the 18th of September 1948 in Melbourne, Australia. He grew up in a rich family going to Malvern and Caulfield Grammar Schools. He first started making money as a stockbroker and then as a finance jo...
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First Commemoration At The Australian War Memorial
1,247 wordsThe experience of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) is an historical event yet it had, and continues to have, such a profound influence on Australia that we still commemorate it. We do this through memorials, services, ceremonies and in a number of informal ways, including by just pausing, wherever we are and whatever we are doing, and recognising the sacrifices that were made for us. We commemorate it not because it was a great victory. It wasn't. But it embodies what we value -...
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Uncharged Asylum Seeker Whilst In Prison
1,173 wordsIn recent months, allegations of abuse, ill treatment and mismanagement, as well as hunger strikes, suicide attempts and breakouts have all served to reveal the cracks in Australia's harsh and disciplinary system of detaining asylum-seekers. Our system is in crisis. Urgently, we must find a reasonable and safe solution to the treatment of asylum seekers who arrive on our shores. For many people fleeing torture or death, it is impossible to obtain the necessary travel documents. It can be too dan...
