Search Results: Happy-Go-Lucky
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Craven
- 20 October 2023
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In Killing for Country, David Marr confronts Australia's dark colonial past, revealing unsettling truths about the Australian Native Police's brutal acts. Published during the Voice referendum, Marr intertwines personal ancestry with national guilt, urging Australians towards truth-telling and reconciliation. This isn't just history; it's a call for atonement.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 20 April 2015
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We can judge the exuberance of the Anzac commemoration against the nonchalance of the last Anzac Alec Campbell. He said he went to Gallipoli for adventure and, to him, 'Gallipoli is Gallipoli'. John Howard argued Anzac defined our 'sense of self', although he did acknowledge that Anzac is something that was made up. It's better to let historians rather than politicians select events that define the nation, even if they opt for the frontier wars of the 19th century that depict white Australians as violent and racist rather than heroic and virtuous.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 21 April 2010
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Harry was 18, a knockabout bush larrikin ready to give anything a try. He joined the Second Machine Gun Battalion on 10
February 1915 and landed at Gallipoli on 16 August. For the next four months he, like so many of his fellow
soldiers, had an undistinguished, brutalising time, memories of which
would stay with him forever.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 26 June 2008
Half way through Happy-Go-Lucky, effervescent heroine Poppy encounters a homeless man under a bridge. The scene marks the emergence of a serious subtext in the upbeat film, regarding the tension between personal and social expectations about how best to live.
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AUSTRALIA
- Leslie Cannold
- 25 April 2006
Who’s the real father? Men’s rights, women’s quandaries and the truth about misattributed biological paternity.
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