Deaths
- 14 February – David Syme, newspaper proprietor (born 1827)
- 29 February – John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow, first Governor-General of Australia (born 1860)
- 7 March – Alfred William Howitt, anthropologist (born 1830)
- 11 May – Charles Kingston, Premier of South Australia (born 1850)
- 20 October – Vaiben Louis Solomon, Premier of South Australia (born 1853)
- 14 November – Ernest Favenc, explorer (born 1845)
- 18 November – Pierce Galliard Smith, priest (born 1826)
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“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
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“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
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