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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...
Dear mother
I am the scattered cherry blossomthat falls in the spring.I am the snow that feathersthe top of your headyour...
Terrorism and the Cold War
BEFORE THE WAR on terror, there was the Cold War. When the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) was formed...
Allies in name alone
THE VIETNAM WAR lingers in the collective memory like some unspeakable crime, locked away in the nation’s attic. Contrary...
Barrier thinking
IN VIETNAM, MINES accounted for half of the Second Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR) soldiers killed in action. Two...
A hundred in a million
MARTIN O’MEARA, A Tipperary man who had enlisted in Perth, was awarded the Victoria Cross (VC) for carrying both...
Anzac instincts
IT IS A curious thing, perhaps unique to Australia, that someone appraising the phenomenon of Anzac – that shared...
Lots of rabbits this year
DISPERSED AMONG LENGTHY discussions of cycling, which must have been their shared passion, a teenage Charles Harlock was given...
A Christmas story
JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT, six soldiers were shot in their beds in the Officers’ Quarters on Christmas Island. Their bodies...
A remarkable man
RAY PARKIN TOLD stories. He wasn’t exactly the Ancient Mariner, but there was an insistence and a very steady...
