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Forgotten Years - Lyrics
Few of the sins of the father
Are visited upon the son
Hearts have been hard
Hands have been clenched in a fist too long
Our sons need never be soldiers
Our daughters will never need guns
These are the years between
These are the years that were hard fought and won
Now, contracts torn at the edges
Old signatures stained with tears
Seasons of war and peace
These should not be forgotten years
Still it aches like tetanus
It reeks of politics
How many dreams remain?
This is a feeling too strong to contain
The hardest years, the darkest years
The roarin' years, the fallen years
These should not be forgotten years
The hardest years, the wildest years
The desperate and divided years
We will remember
(These should not be forgotten years)
Our shoreline was never invaded
Our country was never in flames
This is the calm we breathe
This is a feeling too strong to contain
Still it aches like tetanus
It reeks of politics
Signatures stained with tears
Who can remember?
We've got to remember
The hardest years, the darkest years
The roarin' years, the fallen years
These should not be forgotten years
The hardest years, the wildest years
The desperate and divided years
We will remember
(These should not be forgotten years)
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You guys are amazing. Thank You for taking the time to understand and help honour Anzac Day.🇦🇺🇦🇺
Just a note on Anzac day. Its not only for the fallen but for all who served both countries, that fought and suffered for the peace our countries enjoy. The date was the landing of Gallipoli in WW1 which was a catastrophe for us. Somehow the ANZACs made a fond relationship with the Turkish soldiers they fought and Turkey has taken care of our men left behind ever since.
There is a great movie about it called Gallipoli starring Mel Gibson.
@@fransbuijs808. The mini series Gollipoli is even better.
"All the mothers and all the sons wipe away your tears. For those who fought and those who fell become our sons as well". Mustafa Kamal Ataturk.
Great words and great lyrics.
We in Australia renamed a place near where the ANZAC’s left from Albany in WA (Western Australia). It’s called Ataturk Entrance and is part of the Albany harbours. Renamed in honour of Mustafa Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey and the bloke commanding the soldiers the ANZACs fought against.
A response from an Australian listening on the morning of ANZAC Day, 2022. Midnight Oil wrote this song in 1990 when, nothwithstanding the conflict in the Middle East, those of us living in so-called "western" liberal democracies had begun to assume that our young would not have to pick up a gun to defend their homeland, or to fight in a foreign war. That hope was shattered by the Gulf War that very year, and we have slid backwards ever since. The catastrophes of Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen and the rest; now the outrages being perpetrated in Ukraine. "Forgotten Years" is full of hope and energy, but the warning is in the title. We don't appear to be listening. Democracy is retreating in Hungary, in Turkey, in India, in the United States and in a dozen other countries. In Russia, of course, democracy is dead in the water. Emmanuel Macron has just regained the French Presidency, but not before being forced into a run-off with a neo-Nazi. Boris Johnson behaves like a sideshow clown in the UK, while flirting with authoritarianism. Australia has compulsory voting and a preferential voting system, both of which mean that it is harder for extremists to enter parliament. Here, however, the system is being eaten away from within. The governing Coalition of extremist neoliberals and redneck extremists (the National Party) is corrupt to the core, contemptuous of the people, and relies on gaslighting, slander and conspiracy theories to bamboozle an apathetic and politically illiterate electorate.
Forgotten Years needs to be played again and again, with the lyrics sheet in front of our eyes. And we'd do worse than listen to Midnight Oil's entire back catalogue. Another suggestion: listen to "Truganini", and to "My Country". Read the lyrics, and find out about Truganini. And thanks for bringing the magnificent "Oils" to the attention of our American friends!
Hear, hear n. Beautifully put.
You’ve covered the background to this song and it’s relevance today beautifully! Thank you.
Midnight Oil are all about the message as well as the music and those messages remain incredibly relevant. Listened to Short Memory recently. We just never learn.
And yes, the political landscape is depressing and the upcoming election is critical.
Yes - absolutely true - democracy is under attack worldwide from primitive clownish forces. Utterly corrupt, and incompetent, but potent because of extreme saturation of idiocy in the media and online, and the inability of people to get any unbiased news. Meanwhile, even when the centre and centre right gets into power - Democrats in the US and Labor in Australia, they still fail to do anywhere near enough to improve people's lives and increase their faith in our democratic project.
We simply can't win in the end, if right wing media, and obstruction is allowed to continue. The next step for many countries after years more of decline is fascism. Meanwhile we're on borrowed time anyway because of climate change that we're not doing anything about - again because of well funded disinformation campaigns.
It's good we went overseas to fight Nazis in WW2, and a horrible disaster that our corporations, media and Governments are paving the way for it's return into our own countries - particularly the English speaking democracies who are all teetering on the brink.
@@franmarel2883 Thanks, Fran: and yes, what a great song Short Memory is. I was about 20 when 10,9,8...etc came out. What an incredible album. As a musician friend of mine would say, "all killer, no filler!". Every song is a smack in the face, that is to say, a call to wake up and pay attention. (Which makes me think of Radiohead's "Wolf at the Door".) Short Memory contains one of my favourite things about Peter Garrett's performances, those machine-gun monologues that he does in a couple of songs, yelling at the audience: "IF YOU READ THE HISTORY BOOKS YOU'LL SEE THE SAME THING HAPPENS AGAIN AND AGAIN!...". He does it in "Lucky Country" as well, on the album "Place Without a Postcard". You know this, Fran! But anyone who doesn't: PWAP is a relatively less well-known album where every song is a masterpiece. "Brave Faces" "Don't Want to be the One", the mighty "Armistice Day", "Lucky Country", and on it goes...
OK: for those who have listened now to "Forgotten Years", go and find the incendiary "Armistice Day", which is about another resonant date in the Australian calendar: 11 November, commemorating the Armistice ending World War I. (It's also the day Ned Kelly was hanged in Old Melbourne Jail.) The Oils' take on it is like Dylan's "Masters of War" - it aims squarely at the military, at politicians and the media, who glorify and promote war by turning it into fake nationalism. That happens on ANZAC Day and on the "eleventh of the eleventh". And for additional context for non-Australians: 11 November is the day in 1975 when the democratically-elected Labor government, led by Gough Whitlam, was illegally and unconstitutionally removed from office by a conspiracy orchestrated by the conservative opposition, the Chief Justice of the High Court (our equivalent of America's Supreme Court), and with the knowledge of Buckingham Palace. American involvement as well, I am sad to say. Those of us old enough to remember that day (I was just 15), and who believe in democracy, see this day as a bloodless coup. Older Americans never forget where they were when they learned of the assassination of JFK. Australians my age and older never forget the moment they learned of the illegal sacking of the Whitlam government. In my case, I returned home from school to find my father at home marking essays in our kitchen (he was a university lecturer). He told me what had happened, looked at me and said, "You must never forget this moment." Nearly half a century later, I can hear those words as if it were yesterday.
Midnight Oil helps us to remember, and to stay alert.
@@user-kj3ch3ke8m I am inspired to re-visit the Oil’s back catalogue!!
Just a quick response on that day of “infamy” , I was about 17 and my history teacher (a nun) got our class to examine all the major newspapers of the day to see the obvious bias of some (no prize for guessing which) towards the events. I was pretty apolitical until then. The Murdoch Press continues its malignant influence.
Best wishes
"Midnight Oil vocalist Peter Garrett told The Washington Post this anthem about the painful consequences of war "credits those who served, remembering that at times it was folly, as in Vietnam, and that at times it was survival, which is what World War II was."
Oils drummer Rob Hirst wrote the lyrics, basing them on his family's experiences during World War II, and the band's keyboardist/guitarist Pete Moginie added the music.
Moginie explained to Blurt Magazine how the song came together: "'Forgotten Years' started as a song called 'Jacob's Ladder' which then underwent a substantial lyric rewrite with Peter involved (I think) and a few chord alterations as well, so now he could hook into it lyrically. Win!
Rob's experience with his relatives that had fought in WW2, which inspired the song, was not unique amongst our baby boomer generation: my uncle, who had fought in France and Papua New Guinea and worked tirelessly for Legacy told me when he heard it and saw the video, it really summed up how he felt about the war and the sacrifice so many made. So I love that song."
The music video was shot in the World War I cemeteries in Verdun, France."
Great comment except that Moginie's first name is Jim!
RIP Arthur. My great uncle. Lost to our family thanks to WW1. I visited your grave at Malta in 2017. Our family misses you and grieves the family you might have had. Never forgotten
Watching from Australia 🇦🇺 When you said we live they way we do because of them, you became Australian huni, its what Aussies believe in the depths of our soul. ❤❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Wow, not many people outside of Australia even know about Anzac Day?
Thanks guys for remembering as well. Much love from Australia and New Zealand.
Our shoreline was actually bombed and invaded. Unlike the USA which joined WW2 (and WW1) late, Australia was not just bombed but also invaded in WW2 and actually fired the very first shots of WW1.
We fought WW1 from 1914 not 1917, and WW2 from 1939 not 1941.
Worth noting when people feel like America was the one who defended everything.
we were bombed.. in darwin, but we were not invaded in WW2. The plan the Japanese had was to take PNG and Port Moresby as a staging point to invade Australia. All the while harassing the coasts that they could reach. the volunteers at kokoda put a stop to that at great cost and loss of life.
How good is the Aussie accent on this song !! 😊
Great band great song.
Anzac Day 2022, Lest We Forget
Thanks guys! Lest we forget. Peace.
Great reaction to a great song and great band. Just saw them two weeks ago on their farewell tour and they sounded exactly the same as 25 years ago when I first saw them.Big fan of your channel and your reactions.
Yeah, I saw them too, they were great.
Growing up with the Oils, we loved the music at the time buy now, year later we actually see and understand their message... Beds are burning, when the generals talk, etc
Australia and New Zealand.... enemies in sports, brothers in arms. There will never be a stronger bond, Aussies would die for our brothers freedom...love you guys. X
As an Aussie, when I watched Trevor Chappell bowl that underarm delivery under advisement from his dickhead brother Greg, to Brian McKecknie in the One Day game, I thought to myself "That's the end of our love/hate relationship. It's hate from now on it seems." I was a defeatist. I loved Ritchie Benaud's commentary on it afterwards and, to say he was appalled, was an understatement.
However Manna, you're quite correct, we would all charge in together when it comes to protecting each other in a moment of crisis.
The clip was done in a real WW1 war cemetery. When the band asked for permission, the people requested a copy of the song first. Gave them the thumbs up immediately.
Proud Aussie, 🇦🇺👍🇦🇺👍
Love from Brisbane
THANKS for giving us another Aussie/NZ reaction on this special day for us :) ♥ we love youz Suze n Travvo, awesome Reactiononarianens
I'm sure Peter Garrett is Travis's biological father 🤪
LOL!!
SO glad you reacted to this, not enough people do. One of my faves by Midnight Oil.
The band that represents our national conscience - even if many of us have lost it ...
This goes really deep into the hearts of every Australian! Thank You 😊 I’m in tears all day! Such an emotional time! Proud to be Australian!
Midnight oil - Dead heart
Much love to all our brothers over the ditch love the banter between us will always be proud to be an anzac
Absolutely brilliant band. I still listen to their albums "Blue Sky Mining" and "Diesel and Dust" on a regular basis. As fate would have it they are going on tour in the states in just a month or two. This has not happened in quite a while, and may not happen again so if you're at all interested in witnessing a brilliant band that really connects with a live audience now is the time.
A truly iconic band. ALL of their songs were about justice for people, people rights, climate and in their early years about Australian society; the difficult and hard aspects. But what they will be forever remembered for in my opinion is their focus on the rights of indigenous Australians. But for anyone who has seen them live, I'm sure they will agree that they are just amazing live. By the end of their performance everyone is just so pumped and into the energy they project that it's really transcendant - the audience is transcended into their music and message. I am hoping to be at their last ever concert later this year.
Got goosebumps watching this , this time of year . Imagine them playing and filming the clip there . Spin tingling I bet
Really appreciate your interest in all things Oz. Your comments on this song show wisdom beyond your years - Thanks Rob (Old veteran)
Anzac stand for Australia & new Zealand Army Corps ... My step father & his father were in NZ army
Thanks for reacting to this, a special tribute to the ANZACs.
Great reaction from you both as I’d said in my other comment . Let’s we Forget.It’s A day .For All too come together. I Bow too all off the Digger’s . 🌺🏅🌺🎗🙏
A forgotten masterpiece! Love the reaction!
Both of my grandfathers fought in france ww1, my dad was a front line scout in new guinea, my uncle was a gunner in vietnam, my late brother did national service in the 70’s….and Midnight Oil are easiy the best live band ive ever seen.
Conocí a Midnight Oil con la canción Beds Are Burning y desde entonces es un grupo al que le tengo un cariño especial
The new Midnight Oil album Resist (2022) is brilliant. The album shows how amazing they are still today and in my opinion it is the strongest album in years, as great as "Diesel And Dust" and "Blue Sky Mining".
Really good reaction, great song. Great band. Thanks for not doing 'Only 19' (Redgum) or 'Battle Scars' (Guy Sebastian). Great songs also but have been done to death.. This was refreshing.
Australia has participated in many wars. ANZAC Day started as a remembrance of the Gallipoli campaign. (WW1). We had already been involved in the Boer War, and I believe some Australias participated in the Crimean War, though as volunteers in the British army.
Over the years, ANZAC Day has become not just a day for remembering Gallipoli, but all Australian soldiers, especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
We will remember them.
Lest we forget
Day off
australia has no business in all these wars. Lapdogs to the US.
@@seawater1322 Australia was involved in both WW1 and WW2 before the US was.
@@notanotherenigma7759 lapdogs to the UK before shifting to the second master the US. Yep me just how Australia's 'freedoms' were secured by their ridiculous participation in Gallipoli? Atotal waste of effort in a war that had nothing to do with Australia.
Thank You .
Few of the sins of the father, are visited upon the son
Hearts have been hard, our hands have been clenched in a fist too long
Our sons will never be soldiers, our daughters will never need guns
These are the years between
These are the years that were hard fought and won
Contracts torn at the edges, old signatures stained with tears
Seasons of war and peace, these should not be forgotten years
Still it aches like tetanus, it reeks of politics
How many dreams remain? This is a feeling too strong to contain
The hardest years, the darkest years, the roarin' years, the fallen years
These should not be forgotten years
The hardest years, the wildest years, the desperate and divided years
We will remember, these should not be forgotten years
Our shoreline was never invaded, our country was never in flames
This is the calm we breathe, this is a feeling too strong to contain
Still it aches like tetanus, it reeks of politics
Signatures stained with tears, who can remember
We've got to remember
The hardest...
Forsaking aching breaking years, the time and tested heartbreak years
These should not be forgotten years
The blinded years, the binded years, the desperate and divided years
These should not be forgotten years, remember
Dei here, Thanks Travis and Suzi. My great grandfather survived Ypres and Passchendaele when many around him didn't. Midnight Oil only ever requested to film background footage from the war cemetery in France, but they gave the band full access, so the music video was made with the greatest respect possible.
WOW DEI!
Thanks mate
❤
Brazil love Midnight Oil 🤩🤩🤩🤩
My favourite Oils song. There’s so much more for you to discover though.
Armistace Day is another great song from Midnight Oil.
Thanks Travis and Suzy. Anzac is special to so many Aussies and it's also a great band to play that song. Thanks for tuning in.
I love this song. And the whole Blue Sky Mining album is great.
Correct reaction.
Also check out Opeth Blackwater Park and Coil/Heir Apparent
Hey guys another great reaction video, & I was just wondering if you could do a reaction toa song called Australia's deadliest animal song. I think you will get a great laugh from this song.
I remember when Exons oil tanker sank & spilled all of its crude creating a huge environmental disaster, Midnight oil set up a stage in front of Exons head office in the US & gave a free concert.
I love all of the oils music, a good song to react to would be Short Memories.
They’ve already reacted to Short Memories. It was awesome
@@helenpolemis6955 Fantastic, didn't know that, will go look for it now.
Thanks Helen
Great reaction guys,much respect from all Australians
"LEST WE FORGET"
So glad you understand Midnight Oil learn as much as you can i guarantee it will change you, i look forward to more, (AUSTRALIA RULES)
Now do Midnight Oils 1982 Anti War song "US Forces", which also an anti war song
This combination of a very dark message presented joyfully is also found in Yothu Yindi’s “Treaty”. The tune sticks in the mind, you find yourself repeating the words of the message in your mind.
One of the best bands in the universe, with a strong message and great music. What more could u want?
A magnificent protest song, which, after all, is what Rock and Roll is about. Ohio...anyone....? My city was gone....
Geddy remarked that in the years between Test for Echo and Vapor Trails (forgotten years...?) he had no desire to play music or create music because his spirit had been crushed by Neil's tragedies, 'and one of the necessities for rock music is spirit.'
Good on The Oils for combining protest and spirit.
The Killers did a (pardon the pun)killer version of this song at the AFL Grand Final a few years ago....
Lead singer said something along the lines of "there are a lot of things we can thank God for....one of them is Midnight Oil."
The Bombing of Darwin, also known as the Battle of Darwin,[4] on 19 February 1942 was the largest single attack ever mounted by a foreign power on Australia. On that day, 242 Japanese aircraft, in two separate raids, attacked the town, ships in Darwin's harbour and the town's two airfields in an attempt to prevent the Allies from using them as bases to contest the invasion of Timor and Java during World War II.
Darwin was lightly defended relative to the size of the attack, and the Japanese inflicted heavy losses upon Allied forces at little cost to themselves. The urban areas of Darwin also suffered some damage from the raids and there were a number of civilian casualties. More than half of Darwin's civilian population left the area permanently, before or immediately after the attack.[5][6]
The two Japanese air raids were the first, and largest, of more than 100 air raids against Australia during 1942-43. The event happened just four days after the Fall of Singapore, when a combined Commonwealth force surrendered to the Japanese, leading to the largest surrender in British history.
The number of people killed during 19 February raids is disputed. The Lowe Commission, which investigated them in March 1942, estimated 243 victims but, assuming a few were unidentified, concluded "I am satisfied that the number is approximately 250 and I doubt whether any further investigation will result in ascertaining a more precise figure."
Darwin was lightly defended relative to the size of the attack, and the Japanese inflicted heavy losses upon Allied forces at little cost to themselves. The urban areas of Darwin also suffered some damage from the raids and there were a number of civilian casualties. More than half of Darwin's civilian population left the area permanently, before or immediately after the attack.[5][6]
The two Japanese air raids were the first, and largest, of more than 100 air raids against Australia during 1942-43. The event happened just four days after the Fall of Singapore, when a combined Commonwealth force surrendered to the Japanese, leading to the largest surrender in British history.
The number of people killed during 19 February raids is disputed. The Lowe Commission, which investigated them in March 1942, estimated 243 victims but, assuming a few were unidentified, concluded "I am satisfied that the number is approximately 250 and I doubt whether any further investigation will result in ascertaining a more precise figure."
Thank you, from an Aussie.
We've not had a civil war or anything but far out when we join in we are in 100%
I was up at bugger all o'clock & off to the RSL for dawn service. We also remember all the animals - especially the horses as we are horse country here.
We owe the horses our victories and our very existence🥀
Oh. Yes we the Australian and New Zealand forces fought as one under ANZAC. But we our fallen died side by side with your fallen. So yes ANZAC day is Australian New Zealand but the blood spilt and blended is universal world wide
It’s not until you go to a war cemetery & you actually realise how senseless war is& his young these men are. Teenage kids & early 20’s. who gave their lives for us.
Watch this clip closely & sed the thousands of our young men in these war cemeteries in France. WW1 & WW11
Blossom and blood is another song they wrote about the subject of War
I think you should watch blow up the pokies by the Whitlam or as you may say in the usa slot machines
Another song along the same theme and is a great listen too is Armistice Day.
Love the oils. King of the mountain, Blue Sky Mining & US Forces are also really good songs you should look at.
We will remember them 🇦🇺
Listen new song Rising Seas is amazing song!
If you think this is confusing, try reacting to the Clash 'Spanish Bombs'.. very upbeat song about the Spanish civil war.
Those rows of graves. 😞😞😞
As an ex-cop, I had to respond to his pollical office several times. He was anti-cop but a;ways rang when protesters turned up. Thank god he's out of politics..
Mate being on the other side maybe, you should of said how both sides had people turn up to cause trouble on both sides
Blue Sky Mine next guys
What Rules ?
We love our diggers. We have such respect years. Australia 🇦🇺 wouldn’t be Australia if it wasn’t for the people that fought for our country. We respect our ANZACS
I haven't heard this song for a long time. I was so pleasantly surprised when I found it while going through some of the older reaction videos. My preferred genre is normally heavy metal, but something about the way this song is sung makes it hit harder than any metal song.
What a lovely couple you are. Your genuine curiosity and appreciation for Aussie culture is heartwarming. Thankyou
This song comes from the heart of the lead singer his grandfather died in 1942 when the japanese prison ship he was a prisoner in was torpedoed by the uss sturgeon accidentally of course over a thousand souls lost
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Thanx for watching the oils, it was an inspiring song. But we don't honour our veterans as much as the U.S. does.
Make sure you go and see the Oils live. They'll be in North America around June this year. Best live band and Forgotten Years is in their set list
glad you liked this. we love midnight oil in australia. well us from the 80's and 90's. i wish the youngens would get into it more their music is epic. cheers for the vid.
Pls react to D-low sbx showcase 2019 or vocodah - new level or disintegrate or fear
Love your reactions if you like Slaughter to Prevail check out both baba yaga and Bratva would love to see what you think...
Id love to see you guys react to Steve Vais new tune Teeth of the Hydra. He just released a music video of him playing the song on a very unique instrument of his design.
Please react to Marilyn Manson - Tainted Love (HD 720p best quality)
Peter it was defineatly a great song, i am not sure if the location was the right thing to do, just my opinion.
Great song, thanks guys. I know what you mean about how it makes you feel. It's like Sad Happy !!
This is most definitely my favourite oils song. just so good.
Great song, had forgotten this gem of a song! Not the first song I think of on ANZAC day, but it is a a great tribute.
They are currently on their final world tour. They will be in the US of A in June!
Perfect song choice for ANZAC Day!
One of their best songs. The only downside is that it's so short!
I first saw Midnight Oil in late 1979 at The Narrabeen Antler Hotel on Sydney's Northern Beaches.
The Band's politics are similar to mine.
I'm more Left-Wing than they are though.
Free Health, Free Education, Free Childcare, Free Public Transport, all of which would be possible if Multi-National Companies actually paid tax.
If Western Governments were to Nationalise all foreign owned industries, then all the profits would go the Government, in other words, to the people.
" The rich get richer, the poor get the picture, the bombs never hit ya when you're down so low " Midnight Oil lyrics.
OK, so I love and worship The Oils, we are like kindred spirits.
However, some of the lyrics in FORGOTTEN YEARS are not true, in accordance with reality.
When they say " Our shoreline was never invaded " that isn't true, because In late May and early June 1942, during World War II, submarines belonging to the Imperial Japanese Navy made a series of attacks on the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle. On the night of 31 May - 1 June, three -class midget submarines, (M-14, M-21 and M-24) each with a two-member crew, entered Sydney Harbour, avoided the partially constructed Sydney Harbour anti-submarine boom net, and attempted to sink Allied warships. Two of the midget submarines were detected and attacked before they could engage any Allied vessels. The crew of M-14 scuttled their submarine, whilst M-21 was successfully attacked and sunk. The crew of M-21 killed themselves. These submarines were later recovered by the Allies. The third submarine attempted to torpedo the heavy cruiser USS , but instead sank the converted ferry HMAS , killing 21 sailors. This midget submarine's fate was unknown until 2006, when amateur scuba divers discovered the wreck off Sydney's northern beaches.
The Bombing of Darwin, also known as the Battle of Darwin,[4] on 19 February 1942 was the largest single attack ever mounted by a foreign power on Australia. On that day, 242 Japanese aircraft, in two separate raids, attacked the town, ships in Darwin's harbour and the town's two airfields in an attempt to prevent the Allies from using them as bases to contest the invasion of Timor and Java during World War II.
Darwin was lightly defended relative to the size of the attack, and the Japanese inflicted heavy losses upon Allied forces at little cost to themselves. The urban areas of Darwin also suffered some damage from the raids and there were a number of civilian casualties. More than half of Darwin's civilian population left the area permanently, before or immediately after the attack.[5][6]
The two Japanese air raids were the first, and largest, of more than 100 air raids against Australia during 1942-43. The event happened just four days after the Fall of Singapore, when a combined Commonwealth force surrendered to the Japanese, leading to the largest surrender in British history.
The number of people killed during 19 February raids is disputed. The Lowe Commission, which investigated them in March 1942, estimated 243 victims but, assuming a few were unidentified, concluded "I am satisfied that the number is approximately 250 and I doubt whether any further investigation will result in ascertaining a more precise figure."
"I'm more Left-Wing than they are though.
Free Health, Free Education, Free Childcare, Free Public Transport, all of which would be possible if Multi-National Companies actually paid tax."
I like the passion that Garrett puts into his lyrics and performance, but I disagree with left wing politics. UNLESS, the people handing out all those freebies you mention do their part and provide their services for free. Voluntary doctors, teachers, day care providers, bus drivers....the works.
Maybe if people didn't expect cradle to grave social programs there wouldn't need to be a tax burden heavier than one required to pay for courts and police and national defense, you know, the original intent of government; protection of individual rights. No income tax might allow people to build up some wealth that they could donate to their favorite charitable cause.
Things cost less when the people doing the buying / donating are using their own money; bureaucrats don't care because it isn't their money and government contractors / employees don't care about inflating their price because 'the government' is paying for it.
Nothing can beat the natural laws of economics.
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