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American newspaper correspondents reporting the fighting in the first world war succumbed to intense pressure to self-censor.
While no Australian nurses died in service on the Western Front, the horror of what they saw and treated on the front lines caused tremendous suffering and pain.
When the 1918 influenza pandemic struck India, the death toll was highest among the poor.
From the Swiss border to the English channel, a scholar describes his pilgrimage of the Western Front as a tribute to fallen soldiers and to learn more about the devastating loss of life.
Medical advances were the only positive things to come out of the Great War.
Seven Australian composers feature in an epic communal piece of music honouring the Australians who died on the Western Front. It will have its premiere in Canberra, this Saturday.
Forty six thousand Australians died on the Western Front. After WWI, diggers were resettled in Queensland’s Granite Belt, where suburbs were named after battle sites. Our photo essay explores these poignant places today.
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Visiting Fellow, ANU School of Music, and Artistic Director, The Flowers of War, Australian National University
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Lecturer in Journalism, Media & Communication, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Landscape Studies, Dalhousie University
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Professor of Clinical Education and Surgery, Keele University
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Community Faculty, Metropolitan State University
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Associate Professor in Australian History, The University of Queensland
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PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland
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Principal of South College, Durham University
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Lecturer in History, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau