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A Peace Of Fiction: Australia Should Celebrate A National Day Of Violence
If we’re going to engage in so much violence, then why not celebrate it, ask Gideon Polya and Richard Hil.
- New Matilda
What’s all this talk about peace?
Why should Australia celebrate peace when we appear to be such a violence-prone nation?
Someone recently suggested that instead of staging peace rallies, Australia should hold a National Violence Day, such is this nation’s dalliance with this most aberrant of practices.
No doubt, such views will upset the Pollyannas amongst us, but can Australia, in light of its past and current predilections, claim to be a…