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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...
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...
