Welcome to GR Online, a series of short-form articles that take aim at the moving target of contemporary culture as it’s whisked along the guide rails of innovations in digital media, globalisation and late-stage capitalism.
Breaking ranks with Empire
IN 1920, THE New Zealand official war artist George Edmund Butler presented a painting to the New Zealand Government...
What was lost
DURING THE CENTENARY commemorations of the Great War, it will no doubt be frequently asserted that the conflict ‘made’...
Family casualties
IN 1927, MRS Clara Stephens wrote to the Repatriation Department describing life with her son, a returned soldier who...
An unexpected bequest
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE to look at daguerreotypes of nineteenth-century Australian women in their hats and heavy, long dresses without...
A legend with class
FOR THE AUSTRALIAN labour movement, Anzac has been more like a first cousin than a close sibling. There is...
Gough’s war
It took Gough’s war years and his time in the RAAF, freed from the happy but sheltered home life...
Reaching to homelands
STORIES OF WAR never lose their power to shock, sadden and confront. Witnessing death and experiencing violence and atrocities...
Marked men
GERMAINE GREER’S FATHER never hugged her. Born just before World War II, Greer’s childhood was overshadowed by a father...
Dangers and revelations
FOR INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS, experience of the Second World War went beyond service in combat roles. Consider the Davis brothers...
Forgetting to remember
Learning to remember means…transforming individual memories and struggles into collective narratives and larger social movements. Henry A Giroux, The Violence...
War stories
JUST SIX WEEKS after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki triggered the end of World War II, Australian...
Continuing fallout
THE STORY OF Japan’s marriage to nuclear energy is so fraught with suffering, you have to wonder why they...
