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Yumak - Queen of the household, destroyer of carpets
You know I just had to do it. Thanks Elmo. The cat usually just ignored her insane housekeeper, me🎄🎄🐈🐱🐯
Thai red chicken curry with coconut milk, cream and just about every vegetable and some fruit. I feel a nice dinner coming along tonight. Hmm which wine?
The Conscientious Objector, Archibald Baxter
We've gone through the heart-rending events of WW1 and the centenary a hundred years later. We need to remember that with millions of men in the field, fighting for either side's 'God, King and Country', every single man has a story. Not everyone wanted to go kill their fellow man. Some fought against the injustices of the time. Some forced through Conscription to face the enemy. But some stood firm, only to be treated as cruel as their 'cruel foe' by the men they served with.
A sad and touching testament to one man.
Indigenous ANZACs
This week in the Monash Uni course I'm doing, we are discussing several stories about Aboriginal or Indigenous Australians who served in WW1. I've written on this subject before as you might recall. I discovered that my brother-in-law had two uncles who went off to fight for a country that didn't care for them. One of them, Joe McDonald was awarded a medal for bravery on the Western Front which cost him his leg. Months after returning to Lake Condah Mission in Victoria, he was found hanged in a police cell, by the lace of his prosthetic leg, in a cell you could not stand up in. This video tells the story of another soldier from Lake Condah who bravely enlisted but was discharged 200 days later from Meningitis. He was awarded a pension for him and his family but the people in charge of the Mission resented the fact that he received this money and was forced to either leave the Station or give them the pension.
Over 1300 Indigenous Australians served in WW1, maybe even more, as indigenous people explore their recent history. They served because basically, in the trenches they were treated equally. German machineguns didn't discriminate. But when they came home, they hoped their efforts would pave the way for human rights, sadly to find out that the governments and bureaucrats of the time saw them as nothing other than 'loafers'.... We owe these brave men a debt of gratitude, and their communities a well earned apology
Sister Tev Davies - Anzac nurse
Sister Tev Davies travelled to Lemnos in Greece to be part of the 3AGH on that beautiful volcanic rock in the Aegean Sea. Her ability to observe the beauty and horror that surrounds her is a testament of how she survived, how she learned. From the struggling wounded soldiers to the beautiful Lemnian sunsets and to the cramped and class cultured coldness of wartime Britain. Thanks to the Monash Uni team and once again. This silent video tells us so much that not all heroes carried a gun
Tipperary to Fremantle
I'm currently doing an online course at Monash Uni called Worl War 1: A History of 100 Stories. This song is in one of the exercises and would love to share it with you. The course is being run by none other than Prof Bruce Scates
