The return of the Carrolup drawings

Gallipoli: the unmaking of a nation?
Barry Jones

Launch speech for Griffith Review 48: Enduring Legacies at Readings, CarltonWednesday, 22 April 2015I eagerly accepted the invitation to...

Belsen

All images © Nadia Wheatley   I VIVIDLY REMEMBER my reaction when I discovered that my father had worked at Belsen. This...

Staking a claim for peace

The stillness of the morning was broken by a terrific roar as thousands of guns spoke with a single...

The past is not sacred

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

The Boer War

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

Immigration, integration, disintegration

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

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...