It is Still Winter at Home: On the Occasion of an Ecumenical Service for the Victims of the Canyoning Tragedy by Sir William Deane

Sir William Deane

This is another one of the new speeches in the 2009 syllabus for Module B: Critical Study of Texts – Speeches. The speech “It is Still Winter at Home” by Sir William Deane.

It’s the shortest speech in the lot, but I find this actually gives you less to talk and analyse about. However, it works as a good comparison to Paul Keating’s speech “Funeral Service of the Unknown Australian Soldier”.

Both speeches turn individual tragedies into messages about national unity.