... is to life." This quote shows the attitude displayed towards sport and competition in the film Gallipoli. Whilst sport was indeed important, and something that Archie and Frank greatly valued, both for its own and as a shared passion, it was not so important that they would postpone going to war because of the risk ... from the harshness of life in the outback. In the film "Gallipoli" those from the country were willing to take risks, for example when Archie and Frank walked for kilometres across the Australian desert with the lingering danger of "snakes and black fellas." Our current ide...

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... a piano in its common room. Someone began to play, leading to some impromptu singing and dancing. The sight of Alec Hope waltzing with Mary Lord, the first ASAL President, inspired Frank Moorhouse to donate to the Association a Perpetual Trophy for Ballroom Dancing. This has been keenly contested, not to say fought over, at each subsequent conference. One of my strongest memories ... perhaps tended to deflect attention away from the more sensual and bodily qualities of her poetry. It is easy to forget how radical poems like Woman to Man, with its frank expression of female experience an...

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... this description aptly describes Australia's Mass Media. The question of what can be called an industry is clearly defined, and the mass media certainly meets all of the literal definitions. Frank Lowry, the one time owner of the Ten Network once said, "TV was like any other business", the point being that the Media has a product, namely advertising, which it wishes ... ...

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... events which makes this film not a very useful source. Concepts and events that have been added to the film to make it more appealing include characters such as Archy and Frank and their journey to Perth, the shopping dispute during the stay of troops in Egypt and the phone line tragedy during troops fighting in the war. Events that have been ... ...

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