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Here are four different war ballets created in Australia and New Zealand over eight decades.
More than 1,000 Aboriginal Australians served in WWI – but unlike white soldiers, they weren’t feted as heroes. They responded with collective activism.
Gallipoli was a hastily launched military campaign over a maritime choke point – and has parallels with the Strait of Hormuz.
Many RSL branches feel frozen in time: beers, bingo and military banter. Which is why many women veterans don’t feel welcome.
Women veterans report feeling excluded from veteran support services and communities, their service questioned or diminished. This can trigger or worsen existing mental health conditions.
Films about Australia’s efforts in WWI continue to exclude an Aboriginal presence – denying all of us access to their important stories.
With so many people grieving, the notion of doing so in public was seen as tasteless and vulgar. Funerals became smaller, people put on a brave face in public and fewer people wore black.
With General John Monash in command and four companies of US soldiers fighting alongside the Australians, the battle was a resounding success, taking just 93 minutes
Some of these men went from being indentured pearl divers to soldiers in Borneo. Other fled their home country as teenagers to earn money.
The new Australian war epic is a young man’s production in more than one sense of the word.
Global political unrest has highlighted the importance of a credible foreign policy. It may be time for the New Zealand government to consider the revitalisation of ANZAC and participation with AUKUS.
The Australian War memorial recently announced it will extend its exhibition to recognise the Frontier Wars, where Aboriginal resistance fighters fought in retaliation to massacres and other attacks.
The memorial promotes a powerful national origin story. The story of frontier warfare is also a powerful foundation story that deserves to be told.
We combed through historical records to shed light on the lives of these two soldiers to enhance our understanding of the complexity of the Australian military experience.
Although mateship is largely seen as a positive feature of Australian life, defining it is difficult and attempts to politicise it are generally frowned upon.
A short history of the Ex-Services Human Rights Association of Australia: a group of brave returned servicemen and women who protested the Vietnam War.
Anzac soldiers wrote poetry about body lice, shared treatment tips and experimented with new ways of bathing.
Amid the trauma and boredom of war, soldiers turned to reading — often magazines they wrote themselves.
Beautifully directed, powerfully acted, Peter Weir’s Gallipoli still captures the devastating emotional toll of war, 40 years after it first premiered.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor of Strategic & Defence Studies, Australian National University
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Director, Australian National Dictionary Centre, Australian National University
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Associate Professor in Australian History, The University of Queensland
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Director, Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas (CoPI) and Donald Horne Professor of History and Public Ideas, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor in History, Deakin University
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Professor, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Newcastle
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Associate Professor of History, University of Sydney
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Professor of Folklore, Curtin University
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AARC Research Fellow, Australian National University
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Professor, Director of the Centre for the Study of Violence, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle
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University Historian and Principal Research Fellow, History, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Centre for Defence and Security Studies, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Adjunct associate, Adelaide University
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Industry Fellow, UNSW Canberra Cyber, Australian Defence Force Academy, UNSW