A spontaneous display of 'mateship' for the needy


  • Letters
  • Sunday, 02 Jan 2005

HEROISM and generosity are the two best qualities that emerged spontaneously from most Australians during a calamity such as last week's tsunami that swept across 12 countries in Asia with the death toll expected to exceed 125,000 people. 

Every day the figures are changing as new information comes to hand and more bodies are recovered in the isolated islands and towns spread from South-East Asia down to the west coast of Africa at the other end of the Indian Ocean. 

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