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'On January 24, 1941, Australia's Prime Minister Robert Menzies began a journey on a Qantas Empire Flying Boat that took him to engagements in some forty-six towns and cities through some twenty-one countries across the globe. It was an extraordinary trip-made against the backdrop of a second global war, which Australians had, regretfully, joined in September 1939.' (Publication abstract)
'Emeritus Professor John Bigelow delivered this eulogy at the memorial service for David Armstrong in the Great Hall of the University of Sydney on July 16.'