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Drawing by Australia's own Living National Treasure, Michael Leunig,, from the brilliant,

THE PENGUIN LEUNIG,1974

 

"It was less like seeing than being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance... I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck."

- Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,1974 Bantam Books

 

"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

They are endowed with reason and conscience

and should act towards one another in a spirit of sisterhood and brotherhood."

 

"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression:

this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference

and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas

through any media regardless of frontiers."

 

Articles 1 &19 of the  The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Adopted by Australia and the rest of the United Nations General Assembly,

December tenth, 1948

 

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