"Especially at this troubled point in our national history, it would have been valuable for the census to have included an extra tick-box to record the presence and lives of Jews in Australia," writes columnist ROBERT McMAHON.
In some whimsical research, STEPHEN HOLT unmasks his gruff, old headmaster as a cousin of a man who got to look after the great writer DH Lawrence (and his beard) in Thirroul