Walking across the playing fields of St Edmund’s College, Canberra, my mind wanders back 36 years to the day I ran out for Marist’s First XV on the main oval. Although Marist only fielded a senior team for the first time in 1975, three years on the two Catholic schools had developed a fierce rivalry.
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Chris Uhlmann is host of AM on ABC radio and, with Steve Lewis, co-author of the novels The Marmalade Files and The Mandarin Code.
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