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Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage Time-polished skulls of Yagan & Pemulwy sit in a glass cage wired to a burglar alarm in Britain, but the jaws of these two resistance leaders haven't been broken into a lasting grin for the empire. Under fluorescent lamps they're crystal balls into which one can gaze & see the past. With eyes reflected into empty sockets through the glass, I can't stop reading an upside-down newspaper headlining Klaus Barbie, Karl Linnas & Bernhard Goetz. The skulls sit like wax molds for Fear & Angerbeheaded body-songs lament & recall how windy grass once sang to the feet. Now, staring from their display case, they still govern a few broken hearts wandering across the Nullarbor Plain. Killed fighting for love of birthplace under a sky ablaze with flying foxes & shiny crows, they remember the weight of chains inherited from the fathers of bushrangers, how hatred runs into the soul like red veins in the eye or thin copper threads through money. I75 from February in Sydney ...

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