day that resonates most through Australian history, all with a strange strand of the developing national identity that weaves its way through the ages.
The Eureka Stockade, which burst into being just three weeks later, saw a couple of dozen of those diggers shot and killed by Her Majesty’s redcoats as they had rallied to demand their rights, but within a year their basic demands – for all, bar independence – were met.Three decades later, at dawn of November 11, 1880, the bushranger Ned Kelly was pacing his prison cell in Melbourne Gaol when they first came for him.
“Such is life,” the bushranger is reported to have said as the noose was tightened around his throat, just before the lever was pulled and the trapdoor opened. He died like a Kelly.A neat three decades later again, when the Armistice of the Great War comes, at 11am on 11 November 1918, London time, it findsown correspondent, and one of the great war chroniclers of his time, Charles Bean, consumed with purpose.
Peter_Fitz Thank you Peter... beautiful, touching...
Peter_Fitz Yes, and this present generation of yobbos need to be reminded it is those young men that have given you the best country in the world. Up to now because you are ruining it.
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