Off the Hume Highway, safe from
its heavy Melbourne-Sydney
hard drivers, I recommend
on your way to Canberra
you pause at Gundagai -
bypassed by the highway,
money and progress - here
fall for the Niagara Cafe.
Here in 1942
Chifley and Curtin and two
lesser statesmen lingered
over country food considering
the almost inevitable
Japanese invasion. General
MacArthur, had he been on hand -
would he have thought Australia
worth defending? Yet back home
in his own country, doubtless
places like Gundagai, remote
negligible and forlorn,
also had their moments
when the traffic of armies
and destruction echoed
suddenly close and loud.
Cafe Niagara, indeed.
Max Richards (now back home)
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