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THE TERM ‘HISTORY wars’ is best known in Australia for summing up the fierce debate over the nature and...

THE ANZACS AT Gallipoli have not only eclipsed the greater Australian involvement on the Western Front, but have occluded...

By Jim Davidson

ON 26 SEPTEMBER 1999, the Governor-General delivered the opening address at the inaugural Australian Conference on Lutheran Education at...

By Gerhard Fischer

IN 1920, THE New Zealand official war artist George Edmund Butler presented a painting to the New Zealand Government...

DURING THE CENTENARY commemorations of the Great War, it will no doubt be frequently asserted that the conflict ‘made’...

By Ross McMullin

IN 1927, MRS Clara Stephens wrote to the Repatriation Department describing life with her son, a returned soldier who...

By Marina Larsson

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE to look at daguerreotypes of nineteenth-century Australian women in their hats and heavy, long dresses without...

By Jill Brown

FOR THE AUSTRALIAN labour movement, Anzac has been more like a first cousin than a close sibling. There is...

By Frank Bongiorno

It took Gough’s war years and his time in the RAAF, freed from the happy but sheltered home life...

By Jenny Hocking

STORIES OF WAR never lose their power to shock, sadden and confront. Witnessing death and experiencing violence and atrocities...

By Joy Damousi

GERMAINE GREER’S FATHER never hugged her. Born just before World War II, Greer’s childhood was overshadowed by a father...

By Stephen Garton

FOR INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS, experience of the Second World War went beyond service in combat roles. Consider the Davis brothers...

By Tim Rowse