to Australia. Lasting from 1914-1918 the First World War was known by many as the ‘war to end all wars’, this remained, of course, until the Second World War. This essay will explore the experience of the war for the soldiers and Australians overseas, but also the experience of the Australians who stayed in Australia. Secondly this essay will explore the idea of a memorial, and if The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne complies with
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin