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Peter FitzSimons Columnist and author September 20, 2025 — 5.11am

In Sydney Town, it has been a week of reminiscing – last Monday being 25 years to the day since Cathy Freeman lit the Olympic Cauldron and a fortnight of magic began.

Of course, you pretty much have to be over 30 to mist up at the memories the way the rest of us oldies do. So, praise the Lord, pass me my pipe, and let me re-tell, one more time for the road, my favourite yarn from that night.

“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven.” As William Wordsworth once wrote, so it was again.

And that was it, felt like in that dawn of the new millennium, as the world journeyed to Sydney, and we Australians – and it really felt like we had all done it on the n

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