75 days, 75 stories

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Sir Roden Cutler

‘They were singing; they were clasping one another.’

Don McInnes

‘But when we came through the Heads, the Harbour was choc-a-block with warships.’

Marj Purdon

‘He came home a painfully thin person, like thousands of others that came back.’

Anne Haines

‘So many men left their occupations, it was essential for women to step into the breach.’

Billie Hughes

‘Our motto was that we all belong to each other. We all need each other.’

Father John Rogers

‘They’d never heard a thing, and this is … the war was over and done with. We were all home, and they’re looking for their brothers.’

Tom Uren

‘We worked by the principle of the strong looking after the weak.’

Ray Wheeler (2)

‘I can remember saying to “Pills” that if he ever got me out of this lot, that I’d buy him the biggest bucket of ice cream when we got home.’

Jack Davenport

‘I could see this young man with very little chance of survival.’

Daphne Dunne

‘It was very, very emotional, but I feel a much better person for doing it.’
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