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Like the swallows returning year on year, chasing each other through the rafters, Procne and Philomela are a classic tale carried through the years.

Convictions should not be mistaken for fact and sincerity does not equal truth. The image of an Australia before immigration peddled by Hanson is nothing but illusion.

From Oddysseus to Du Fu and Fromelles, the glorious dead say one thing - give us life over death, waste no more in war.

Poets from Egypt to Shakespeare, Du Fu to White Antelope, recognise that life is brief, that we are more than our bodies. What does that shared thread mean for war?

In 751 CE the Chinese poet Du Fu wrote of men marching to war. The message then and now is the same - remembrance is not consent.