Year 10 Novel Study - "The Divine Wind" by Garry Disher: Home

2006 marked the 400th anniversary of the Dutch discovery of the Australian mainland by Captain Willem Jansz in March 1606. Allies in adversity commemorated this anniversary by focusing on the Dutch–Australian experience of the war in the Pacific, 1941–45.

Where there are men fighting, there are always nurses.
~Sister Florence Syer~

As the apparent threat of invasion grew, Australians were gripped by an irrational panic about the potential for the tens of thousands of foreign nationals resident in Australia to become saboteurs or spies. As early as 1939 this fear had led to the introduction of National Security (Aliens Control) Regulations.

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