Although mateship is largely seen as a positive feature of Australian life, defining it is difficult and attempts to politicise it are generally frowned upon.
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A short history of the Ex-Services Human Rights Association of Australia: a group of brave returned servicemen and women who protested the Vietnam War.
Anzac soldiers wrote poetry about body lice, shared treatment tips and experimented with new ways of bathing.
Amid the trauma and boredom of war, soldiers turned to reading — often magazines they wrote themselves.
Beautifully directed, powerfully acted, Peter Weir’s Gallipoli still captures the devastating emotional toll of war, 40 years after it first premiered.
What might the past offer us at this moment, and how will future generations reflect on this year? How will this present become the future’s past?
When the honour of Australia’s revered soldiers is questioned, so, too, is the national self-image. But war is an ugly business, and we pay a price for tethering it so tightly to our identity.
In Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, Anzac stories are often coloured by racism and ongoing injustices that negate the myth of Anzac ‘mateship’.
Army ration biscuits known as ‘Anzac tiles’ were durable but bland - as Australian war archives show, they served as stationery, Christmas cards and as the basis of art.
Since the end of the first world war, the Australian media has often reported that ‘the French’ care about, remember and even venerate the Anzacs. But is this true? And which French people?
Attacking Erdoğan’s original comments, Morrison told a news conference they were “highly offensive to Australians and highly reckless in this very sensitive environment”.
There is a troubling disconnect between a once-iconic institution and broader society.
Australia is spending cast amounts of money commemorating the war dead, but it’s time we took better care of ex-servicepeople who are still living.
Among all things Anzac, the contribution of women is becoming more complicated and controversial.
Embroidery - often seen as women’s work - was a common form of therapy for troops wounded in the first world war. One soldier, Albert Biggs, learned to sew with his left hand after his right arm was badly injured.
The internet and social media are changing how we commemorate war. The hashtag #LestWeForget will be shared millions of times on Remembrance Day in tweets and Facebook comments.
You can name your child ‘Anzac’ - but not your house. Are Australia’s laws restricting the use of the word Anzac still relevant?
From crossing cultural barriers with a cake, to starvation used as a brutal tool of war, Australian soldiers’ letters and diaries reveal an urgently important relationship with what they ate.
For those who were there one hundred years ago, Gallipoli was not the stuff of legend that it later became, but a site of regret and despair.
Tackling Gallipoli is an onerous challenge: it carries baggage that must be accommodated or unpacked with extreme care. Western Australian artist Lev Vykopal’s two exhibitions offer a mix of reverence, analysis, critique and poetry.
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Director, Australian National Dictionary Centre, Australian National University
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Associate Professor of History, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Monash University
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University Historian and Principal Research Fellow, History, University of Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor, Director of the Centre for the Study of Violence, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle
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PhD candidate in History, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer in History, CQUniversity Australia
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Lecturer, Art & Design, Australian National University
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Professor of Folklore, Curtin University
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Honorary Professor, Edith Cowan University
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PhD Candidate in Civil Military Relations, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer, Classics and Ancient History and Director of Teaching and Learning (ugrad), School of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University
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Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Lecturer, School of Humanities and Creative Arts, Flinders University
