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An archive of Chris Johnston's cartoons.
The proliferation of flags, the singing of national anthems, and the desire to make Anzac Day emblematic of Australian values, all diminish the real humanity of those who have died, in order to allow another generation to inflate its image of itself.
In an age of continuous and ambiguously justified war, the ANZAC commemoration has become highly politicised, infiltrated by party politics and populist bravura.
Geoffrey Blainey’s Black Kettle and Full Moon: Daily life in a vanished Australia is a welcome discovery for Deborah Gare.
Latham negotiates political ladders, lovely views at the gallery and passports to freedom.
Historians are fighting a mini war over frontier history and the number of Aboriginal dead. Tom Griffiths argues for a different approach.
The birthplace of a nation? Anzac Cove lies in wait for Australian pilgrims.
Peter Pierce’s postcard from Turkey.
Morag Fraser, former editor of this journal, expressed a residual unease with the very notion of ‘Australian values’, belonging as she saw it to a ‘vocabulary of expediency’ rather than of conviction. What are 'Australian' values, asks Richard Treloar.
Troy Bramston looks at new ideas in Imagining Australia: Ideas for our future.
Peter Pierce examines Roland Perry’s Monash: The outsider who won a war.
Luke Fraser reviews On the warpath: An anthology of Australian military travel, edited by Robin Gerster and Peter Pierce.
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