Women and girls - unashamedly, yes - as a collective - assertive, empowered, and most telling of all, safe.
Safe to walk to the MCG, safe to line-up, safe to engage with fellow fans who they may not have known, and safe to be overcome with emotion. They were free to express themselves; free of judgement, free of society's expectation to conform, and free to move and sing and jump and hug and cry and experience a state of utter happiness for three-and-a-half hours.
Read MoreThere were vapers in the mosh (jampacked dancing area in front of the stage), vapers on vapers as revellers boosted mates on shoulders, vapers in camping areas, vapers in the toilets, vapers at the food and coffee vans - it was a chemically induced cloud of vapes, vaping, and vapers.
Read MoreLast Friday proved a hot Tasmanian summer's day - 29 degrees at its peak.
It was the type of day that is unexpected by mainlanders, particularly those taking the stage, who were quick to point out that they didn't realise Tasmania could get so hot.
The words they used were choice but the description apt as the strength of the sun with very low humidity baked all and sundry.
Read MoreTo explain the heat of the day, I fed water to a parched blue tongue lizard straight from the bottle!
Our party thought the situation brilliant, comical in fact, but there were others who were worried.
The train was full of passengers from Europe and Asia and visitors like us who had chosen to leave an island to visit another.
The locomotive had seen tougher days, but it had also seen better days.
Read MoreHaving a couple of good suits on rotation makes life easy.
It also heightens your sense of occasion and, like my dad, gives a respectful nod to those who have gone before you and paved a path.
Looking good and feeling great through creating your own sense of fashion will wax and wane, but a good fitting suit for moments that matter will never go out of style.
Read MorePerhaps as our memories fade or become confused we are more truthful.
Sadly, we can finally live in the moment because remembering the moment doesn't require as much struggle.
I focus on listening to stories from those who remember because if I don't those memories will die.
I was five.
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