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Repost: Australian 'fair go' demands that we close the Commemoration Gap

Feb 14, 2025
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Dishonouring the missing: thoughts provoked by new entrance to War Memorial

Feb 11, 2025
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Remembering Lyndall Ryan: repost of her review of Stephen Gapps' The Sydney Wars

Feb 6, 2025
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‘A story is where we begin’: two Indigenous poets face monsters of invasion with words of love and hope

Feb 3, 2025
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Professor Megan Davis, a Defending Country Patron, becomes AC in Australia Day Honours

Jan 26, 2025
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War Memorial Director Anderson gets a second five-year term

Jan 24, 2025
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War Memorial art has always been eclectic - and some of it has been incisive

Jan 21, 2025
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Culture is Life gives high profile to The Australian Wars

Jan 17, 2025
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Links between colonial Frontier violence and modern outcomes: early evidence

Jan 17, 2025
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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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