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As a parent, I’m watching America’s anti-vax madness with horror

Liz Gooch Journalist September 12, 2025 — 12.00pm

In the days before he died in August, my father-in-law was most animated when recalling his childhood years on a sheep and wheat farm in the NSW Riverina region.

Conscious that death could be approaching, he was keen for us to record snippets of his 77 years, something to leave behind for his grandchildren, a doorway into a way of life that no longer exists. He recounted stories from the days when he rode horses to school and chased rabbits with his brothers, before becoming a shearer and meeting their grandmother at a country dance when they were teenagers.

Although I already knew about the heartbreaking tragedy that scarr

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