: About Me

I am seventeen and I live in Australia, although maybe for not much longer. While I save up money to go to university in Europe I wait tables and write. Unfortunately, the writing isn't paying for it just yet.

My passion is ...

surrounding myself with controversy

I know too much about ...

food prices at asian restaurants

My parents always told me ...

to stop fighting with my little brothers

My childhood ambition ...

to be an astronaut or a paleontologist

My favorite memory ...

has been in the last 5 months

Why I write ...

to articulate, to think and to make a living without earning it

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

platform by michel houellebecq, the tractatus logicus by ludwig wittgenstein

My first job ...

waiter

My best moment ...

will be when i get a novel published

My inspiration ...

to get going again was, surprisingly, californication

Arts & Humanities > History (Other) Australia and the war in Vietnam

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In World War II, to counter Japan's continued invasion of the nations of South East Asia and the Pacific, Australian Prime Minister John Curtin took steps to withdraw troops from the far off war on the battle grounds of Europe. The focus of Australia's military campaign became the defeat of the empire to the north who had even managed to send bombers to Broome and Darwin. It was a theme replicated in Chris Masters' Four Corners program of 1998 titled The Men who Saved Australia: "It was as if our duty to our past and the security of others eclipsed our duty to ourselves, our own world, our...

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