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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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Events
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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Recent commentary on the Australian War Memorial – from all directions
Jan 16, 2025
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Events
One Mind, One Heart doco NITV/SBS, 19 January
Jan 15, 2025
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Season's greetings from Defending Country
Dec 18, 2024
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Battlefront 1: a new compendium of the Frontier Wars in South-East Queensland
Dec 17, 2024
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What should War Memorial Council Chair Kim Beazley mean by 'the dignity of resistance'?
Dec 9, 2024
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Yoorrook Justice Commission: progress with Truth-telling in Victoria
Dec 4, 2024
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defending country
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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Kate Grenville's questions about our 5000 war memorials
Analysis of Kate Grenville's new book Unsettled, with particular reference to her treatment of war memorials
What should War Memorial Council Chair Kim Beazley mean by 'the dignity of resistance'?
War Memorial Council Chair Beazley referred to the Memorial's plans to recognise the Australian (Frontier) Wars

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