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"Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular."
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"So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since I had felt very strongly in my early schooling being marginalised even in the Catholic school."
"And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s."
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"But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school."
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