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Leading article Australia

The cost of freedom

6 February 2016

9:00 AM

6 February 2016

9:00 AM

‘Military madness’, sang Graham Nash, ‘is killing my country.’ That was back in the ‘70s when US and Australian forces were fighting in Vietnam, and the hippy movement and its singing long-haired spokespersons, such as Graham and his buddies in Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, were horrified that an army would, er, fight in a war.

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