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How about it Minister? Let's fill those Memorial Council vacancies
Oct 21, 2025
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Peter Tinley elected RSL National President: is a War Memorial Council post next?
Oct 16, 2025
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Uncle William Barak's art shows First Nations life before invasion
Oct 15, 2025
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Julianne Schultz's The Idea of Australia is now an SBS doco with Rachel Griffiths
Oct 13, 2025
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The Monthly for October has some important articles on our shared history
Oct 10, 2025
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Exposing the language of oppression: Debra Dank's 'Terraglossia'
Oct 10, 2025
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The Australian Wars at the Wheeler Centre, Melbourne, 12 November: Marcia Langton, Rachel Perkins, Henry Reynolds, David Marr
Oct 6, 2025
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Some early October non-MSM angles on the War Memorial
Oct 3, 2025
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The Voice Referendum Two Years On: Megan Davis and Pat Anderson interviewed
Sep 30, 2025
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More in sorrow than in anger? Canberra Times and Crikey nail War Memorial
Sep 27, 2025
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Flawed Hero, flawed decision: The War Memorial’s institutional cowardice
Sep 19, 2025
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The Australian War Memorial’s prize controversy betrays the institution’s purpose
Sep 18, 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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