Jo

Female | 50s | under 3 minutes
Starts on page 18

EXTRACT: I am employed by the Australian War Memorial in Canberra to repair and catalogue all war memorials and cenotaphs across Australia.It is quite humbling to go into towns, cities and tiny villages and come across such miraculous sculptures, rotundas and obelisks. It is also distressing to sometimes find them in various states of disrepair. Since I began this work I have been consumed by stories. Who were these young men? Did they know anything about the world outside? Did they know they might not return? Who were there families? What about the womenfolk?

Flo

Female | 50s | under 3 minutes
Starts on page 17

EXTRACT: You are Stones! /Don't forget us and we won't forget you./ Behave like Stones./ This is Tyrone - he fought for you -/ In your schoolyard - the farmyard - in town -/ By the creek and by the book./ Now - you have to fight for him and for us./ We're your womenfolk./ We trust you and believe in you./ We nurse you. We feed you. We patch you up./ In turn we ask you to be true.

NO MAN'S LAND BY CHRIS DICKINS

CHRIS DICKINS

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