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Tag: East Timor

A third stab of pathos

March 31, 2013

Two mornings ago my telephone rang at 0630am.  Alice was on the other end of the line, calling me from Darwin.  Two months after she stood in my front yard shouting at me.  Down the phone line I was woken by “Alan!  My sister!  I’m sorry my sister…  for doing that thing, you know, shouting … More A third stab of pathos

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Third World Thoughts

November 4, 2012

When I was 14 years old we traveled across the Tasman Sea from New Zealand to Australia on a family holiday.  It was 1983 and one of the first international news items to enter my consciousness had been playing out on our tv screens.  Footage of starving children in the throes of death had entered … More Third World Thoughts

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