The days are for revolution, the nights are for love
North Queensland Communist Party slogan of the 1930s
Stuck in central Victoria due to misreading a timetable, I came back through Mansfield, two days after hearing about Ray Lawler’s death. Age of 103. One hundred and three. He had just kept on, down there in Elwood on the bay in Melbourne. I was poking around the town as you do, or as I do, looking at the white pillar of the war memorial, the credits as much as the deaths, the “created by public subscription”, the mayor, the etc.
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