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Straying onto hallowed ground.(works on Australian history)
PERHAPS IT'S AKIN to a journo straying into the Members' Bar at Parliament House late on a boring night--suddenly caught in the full flush of outraged stares, the rush to evict, indignation filling the crusty air of the appointed heirs as they slake their thirst and salve their ruffled feathers.
Call it naivety if you want, but after more than thirty-five years in the media, this journalist and media manager, turned occasional writer of history, was blissfully unprepared for the self-righteousness of a minority of academic historians and commentators on to whose hallowed turf I would lightly stumble. Call it a learning curve.
I am, you see, an ...
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