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hink of it all - of the life that is! Study your friends and foes! Study the past! And answer this: "Are these times better than those?" The life-long quarrel, the paltry spite, the sting of your poisoned pride! No matter who fell it were better to fight as they did when the world was wide.

Boast as you will of your mateship now - crippled and mean and sly - The lines of suspicion on friendship's brow were traced since the days gone by. There was room in the long, free lines of the van to fight for it side by side - There was beating-room for the heart of a man in the days when the world was wide.

With its dull, brown days of a-shilling-an-hour the dreary year drags round: Is this the result of Old England's power? - the bourne of the Outward Bound? Is this the sequel of Westward Ho! - of the days of Whate'er Betide? The heart of the rebel makes answer "No! We'll fight till the world grows wide!"

The world shall yet be a wider world - for the tokens are manifest; East and North shall the wrongs be hurled that followed us South and West. The march of Freedom is North by the Dawn! Follow, whate'er betide! Sons of the Exiles, march! March on! March till the world grows wide!

~ Henry Lawson

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31 August 2008

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US-style gangs take to the streets

"Maurauding gangs of "Americanised" youth are staging violent pitch battles on the New South Wales-Queensland border, terrorising locals and cutting a swathe of destruction through the premier tourist locale.

The situation has become so bad, local police have called for help from academics to formulate new strategies to deal with the problem.

"We are putting the call out there - why are are our youth going this way?""

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More useless youth crime that has nothing to do with economic disadvantage. Perhaps youths are committing pointless and egotistical crime because we live in a culture that constantly goes on about human 'rights' but goes almost silent when it comes to human 'obligation': 'you have the 'right' to be who you want to be, and to do what you want to do and forget about a public code of ethics because values are purely the 'private' concerns of individual families in their homes, not the concern of schools, the media, or your community.

Even if this were 'true', the amount of time parents actually have access to their children's attention is obviously dwarfed by the amount of time they don't: when youths are at school, watching movies, surfing the internet, and roaming around with their crew on the streets.
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