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Dr Michael de Percy FRSA FCILT MRSN @FlaneurPolitiq publishes The Political Flaneur (ISSN 2652-8851), a news and political commentary website. He is the Canberra Press Gallery Correspondent for The Spectator Australia, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy, a member of the Australian Research Council’s College of Experts, and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Government at the University of Canberra. Michael is a graduate of the Royal Military College Duntroon where he received the Brigadier Urquhart Trophy (Royal Australian Artillery Prize).

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The Digger’s Code: Anzac Day and the Vernacular of Belonging

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As we pause this Anzac Day to remember the fallen and their mates, spare a thought for our native language that few outsiders ever fully master. It is not the formal speech of the silvertails with their airs and graces. It is the laconic ‘Diggerspeak’ that binds Australian servicemen and women tighter than a

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“In literature mere egotism is delightful.”
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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
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“The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances. Fifty degrees below zero meant eighty-odd degrees of frost. Such fact impressed him as being cold and uncomfortable, and that was all. It did not lead him to meditate upon his frailty as a creature of temperature, and upon man's frailty in general, able only to live within certain narrow limits of heat and cold; and from there on it did not lead him to the conjectural field of immortality and man's place in the universe.”
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