Fourteen Australian recipients of the highest Commonwealth military honour, the Victoria Cross, are mounted on grey chargers. They lead the carriage of the Irish-born Archbishop of Melbourne, Daniel Mannix, along Bourke Street in Melbourne. Around 10,000 first world war veterans and throngs of Catholic schoolboys march behind the procession while tens of thousands of Melburnians Read more
Daniel Mannix was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne for the best part of 50 years, dying in the job on the night of the Melbourne Cup in 1963, a few months short of his 100th birthday. He was a central figure in the social and political history of Australia in the 20th century. Mannix did Read more
This gets personal. In fact, should I even be saying all this to people I have never met? What do I say? How far do I go? These are things I never talk about with strangers. Anzac Day is one of those mysterious days. We know the meaning, only what is the meaning precisely? I Read more