Tag: memorial
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Remembrance Day in 2016
Exactly 98 years ago today, at approximately 11am, silence echoed throughout the Western Front, marking the end of a 4 year warfare that claimed the lives of millions and over 60,000 Australians. This day would become monumental piece of Australian history as the tradition of Remembrance Day would be born, where Australians across the country…
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Millions of guns destroyed after Port Arthur replaced by 1.02M new ones
It has been 20 years since Martin Bryant walked into a cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania and used semiautomatic weapons to shoot 35 people dead and injure 23 more. It was the third worst massacre by a single person in history and prompted extensive reforms to gun regulations in Australia. The Howard government banned all automatic and semi-automatic…