Each pole represents a death, the height distinguishes between adults and children.
Floating early morning sunshine brightens enlightening the wide expanse bobbing gently up and down in calm waters, a dead mother with umbilical cord still attached to her baby far, far away over the waves in a totally foreign land it is breakfast time as a politician sips coffee and reaches for another piece of toast certain that his decisions are right Richard Scutter October 2022 Although the ACT government supported the installation of the memorial, the National Capital Authority were placed in an awkward position as it was strongly opposed by the government of the time. Permission was withheld for a year, and in an act of defiance, 2,000 Canberrans joined the 300 artists, church, and school groups and in a special ceremony held the memorial up by hand for five minutes.
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