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IT IS A curious thing, perhaps unique to Australia, that someone appraising the phenomenon of Anzac – that shared...

By James Brown

DISPERSED AMONG LENGTHY discussions of cycling, which must have been their shared passion, a teenage Charles Harlock was given...

By Tom Bamforth

JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT, six soldiers were shot in their beds in the Officers’ Quarters on Christmas Island. Their bodies...

By Ben Stubbs

RAY PARKIN TOLD stories. He wasn’t exactly the Ancient Mariner, but there was an insistence and a very steady...

NICOLA WALKED WITH his back straight and his shoulders scarcely moving. His upper body perfectly balanced and relaxed, his...

By David Carlin

THE CEREMONY TOOK place on a glorious morning in March at Cowra cemetery, the sky above a flawless blue,...

WHENEVER THE DOORBELL rings late at night in our small Peking University apartment, we know who to expect. Our...

By David Walker

One year I said I didn’t Want to be arrested. Back too frail to be man-handled. I settled for the dawn peace-vigil: Candles...

By Barry Hill

WAR IS A particularly slippery subject for any cold eye to fasten on. In May 2014 I was walking...

By Gerard Windsor

I FORGOT THE ‘great pogrom’, as my grandmother Edith Bonyhady called Kristallnacht with the voice of experience. I was...

By Tim Bonyhady

The tumult and the shouting dies;The Captains and the Kings depart…Rudyard Kipling, ‘Recessional’ SAM COMES UP to her at work....

By Craig Cliff

In Afghanistan, a widow receives my monthly stipend, a small apology as I monitor my intake of news, post a cheque but can’t stomach the...

By Laura Jan Shore