Earlier this year I spent a couple of days at Milmerran, a little town on Queensland's Darling Downs. It has a population of a few hundred, surrounded by cattle farms and increasingly by CSG wells. I was there for work, but I did get time to have a little walk around town (it didn't take long) and found this place. It's called Anzac Memorial Park, and it sits on Milmerran's main street, just out of the little strip of shops that passes for a town centre. It's nothing that special - it has a few little bits of play equipment, a band rotunda, a public toilet, some nice trees and open lawns, a few benches here and there. Pretty much like any park in any town or city in Australia. It also has this - a monument engraved with the names of all the local young men who lost their lives in the First World War. Around the base has been added a second list of names, of those who died in the Second World War. This memorial is obviously well cared for. The
'Contemplating the teeming life of the shore, we have an uneasy sense of the communication of some universal truth that lies just beyond our grasp.' - Rachel Carson