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Ageing motivates me to strive with ever greater enthusiasm and urgency to be better at the things that are important to me
It came as a surprise to me that the midlife crisis is something of a myth and the less time I’ve got left the happier I’ll apparently become.
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Private’s head had been taken to the US after he died from wounds sustained in the Battle of Polygon Wood in Belgium
The skull of an Australian first world war soldier who died of terrible facial wounds sustained on the European western front, before his head was removed and displayed in an American medical museum, has been buried in France with the rest of his remains.
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250 years ago, James Cook was told only to take possession of the land with the consent of Indigenous peoples
Just as centenary commemorations for the national foundation story that is Anzac end later this year, the government is gearing up to celebrate another yarn that often seems interchangeable – the imminent 250th anniversary of the arrival of Captain James Cook and HM Bark Endeavour.
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Children grow out of nursery rhymes and leave home, the toys go into boxes for the shed, favourite dogs die. That’s time
The older I get the sketchier my memories of my parents become.
Yes, their images remain frozen in the photo boards on our bedroom wall and in frames on mantelpieces about the house. For a time after they died my prosaic memories of them were so vivid; something of them continued on in the places where we’d shared so much life.