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Teaching history through asking questions on student excursions

Apr 25, 2024
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Drivel behind the Anzac cloak is still drivel: Colonel Arthur Burke, Kevin Rudd, Barnaby Joyce

Apr 24, 2024
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Red poppies and bare ground: why do we discriminate among our war dead?

Apr 19, 2024
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Audit Office (ANAO) performance audit on management of the War Memorial project

Apr 13, 2024
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Compass points to more knowledge of Australia-Makassar connection

Apr 10, 2024
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Minister provides details on how to lodge Expression of Interest in War Memorial Council

Mar 28, 2024
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From 50 years ago: Humphrey McQueen's pioneer writing on the Frontier Wars

Mar 21, 2024
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War: a poem by Alan Pentland

Mar 20, 2024
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Greg Lehman and Henrietta Marrie become Supporters of Defending Country Campaign

Mar 14, 2024
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Australian 'fair go' demands that we close the Commemoration Gap

Mar 12, 2024
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Anna Clark and Melissa Lucashenko become Supporters of Defending Country campaign

Mar 8, 2024
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Tom Griffiths and Julianne Schultz become Supporters of Defending Country campaign

Mar 3, 2024
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The Australian War Memorial must properly recognise and commemorate the Australian Frontier Wars as an essential part of Truth-telling and as a first step to reframing Australian national commemoration.

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