Random thoughts and observations
While checking my family history website this morning, I noticed today is the 90th anniversary of my uncle Edward Gorey’s burial.
The second of my grandparents’ 12 children, Edward (Ted) was aged just five when he died of diphtheria at Ballarat District Hospital on December 31, 1921.
Edward was born at Trafalgar on April 14, 1916.
Reporting suicide is a virtual taboo in the Australian media. Authorities are reluctant to divulge information or comment on suicide cases. Pressure comes to bear on journalists and editors to not report suicides at all, presumably out of a copycat fear. The hostility from health agencies toward media reporting of suicides has gone too far [...]
In the TV news tonight it was reported that a Melbourne Uniting Church Minister refused to conduct a funeral service for one of his parishioners, a returned soldier, who wanted RSL involvement in the proceedings. I’m not an expert and details are scanty, but my understanding is the request would have involved an Australian Flag [...]
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