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Recognising today’s freedoms

BEFORE dawn broke over Kerang, the town was already stirring. In the cold half-light, beneath a sky still clinging to night, hundreds gathered in silence at the Cenotaph, their breath fogging in the autumn air as they waited for the first notes of the bugle to cut through the stillness. More than 300 people turned […]

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