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'Nanna's story about being abandoned by her father begins simply. In the late 1930s, great-grandfather left his Glenelg house to buy a packet of cigarettes. He wasn't seen again until 1942 in Sydney Harbour, fresh off a ship from North Africa with a captain's rank and a new name. She then shows me a photograph of him standing alongside a troopship in port, and another on reconnaissance dated a year earlier, both photographs with his alias pencilled on the back. The photographs aren't particularly interesting or even mysterious; he looks just like any other man who went to war - that old-school part in the hair, that Don Draper nonchalance. What's interesting is Nanna's reaction to what these photographs represent.' (Publication abstract)

 

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    y separately published work icon Voiceworks Cell no. 93 Winter 2013 16783696 2013 periodical issue 2013 pg. 51-53
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