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                <title>The Shrine of Remembrance</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Armistice day (was Nov 11) and so the Remembrance day ceremonies at the Shrine have passed but Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance is still worth a visit as it hosts a number of exhibitions throughout the year. The latest exhibition is 'Passchendaele: the Australian and New Zealand experience' and it's very good, very simple, very powerful in its message and very moving. ANZACs involvement in the 3rd battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) cost many Australian diggers their lives and this exhibition lets us not forget. <br><br>The Shrine was built over six years from 1928 to 1934 as Victoria's memorial to the men and women who served Australia in all armed conflicts throughout Australia's history.<br><br>Our Shrine is worth a visit for the<br>simple message it tells...Lest we forget.]]></description>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Helen Garner: The Feel of Steel, a collection of articles mostly about Melbourne; this writer truly captures the spirit of Melbourne: “a Melbourne sky, the sort whose hugeness you can only know by being a speck on a plain.” (Picador,2001). For a very readable social history tying place to class: Janet McCalman's Struggletown and Journeyings (Melbourne University Press).]]></description>
                
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