STRAWS IN THE WIND: Eureka – we lost it! / The coming down of the wall / Favourite Books / Home alone*

Eureka – we lost it!First thing, there is one initial worry I have about last week’s Eureka Anniversary March’s format. There is the dawn service at the shrine, the remembrance of the Dead, the subsequent march to town. This Eureka March has the flavour of a parody of an awesome and tragic event, and this year’s linkage with Iraq and open attacks on a government at war, seems an insult to the shrine story, and also to Eureka.If this really was a piece of Labor spin – yet another attempt to creat…

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