Home (State Library of Queensland) Newspaper Home. ReCollections - A 'vigorous cultural movement' « back :: next » A 'vigorous cultural movement' The Pigott inquiry and country museums in Australia, 1975 No matter how smallEvery town has one;Maybe just an obelisk,A few names inlaid;More often full-scale granite,Marble digger (arms reversed),Long descending lists of the dead Geoff Page, 'Smalltown memorials'[1] 'Every town has one': a memorial to the dead of the First World War.
Any traveller or tourist in Australia is likely to have formed the same impression. Links.