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Keywords: Commemoration

  • AUSTRALIA

    ANZAC tradition now beyond satire

    • Brian Matthews
    • 30 October 2006
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    In an age of continuous and ambiguously justified war, the ANZAC commemoration has become highly politicised, infiltrated by party politics and populist bravura.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The frontier fallen

    • Tom Griffiths
    • 05 July 2006

    Historians are fighting a mini war over frontier history and the number of Aboriginal dead. Tom Griffiths argues for a different approach.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    New ideas

    • Troy Bramston
    • 10 May 2006

    Troy Bramston looks at new ideas in Imagining Australia: Ideas for our future.

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  • RELIGION

    Violence transformed

    • James McEvoy
    • 29 April 2006

    The waves of generosity in response to victims of the recent tsunami bring to light a real strength in modern culture. We have high standards of compassion.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The arc of European reconciliation

    • Hugh Dillon
    • 29 April 2006

    Both the Dresden firestorm and the Holocaust were products of the insidious tendency in wartime for the previously unthinkable to become routine.

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