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Category: Memoir

Memorial meeting says farewell to Left leader

A FINE, mild Saturday afternoon in October 2015 was a suitable day to remember the late John Percy. As 4pm

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John Percy — a final farewell

We said goodbye to John yesterday afternoon. Around 100 gathered in the restored Art Deco ambience of a room in

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Figure in a window

” …WHITLAM’s  in power and the war’s ended… for us, anyway, the yanks are still there, still involved in that

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From mountain to museum

I made these photos at Launceston's Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery at Inveresk last week. They show some of

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Movie of a troubled life

IT WAS WHEN I was living in Byron Bay, and when in earlier times I would stay at the community

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Memories tumble like sweets from a jar

THINGS ARE NEVER quite the same when you return. They are similar, but not quite as you remember. There’s always

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What became of Bill?

It's strange how the mention of a name can suddenly take you back to something in your past. So it

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How to buy stamps

Buying stamps on Sydney's lower North shore had never been so cheap... even if you did have to stay watchful...

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First brush with poverty

For us, it was our first brush with poverty...

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To the island

A day on shark island...it must have been around 1970

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