Labor has long had leaders, such as former prime minister Paul Keating, capable of speaking the language of Anzac. AAP/Alan Porritt For the Australian labour movement, Anzac has been more like a first ...
Bantick is a brave man. An historian, writer and senior literature teacher at a prominent boys' grammar school in Melbourne, he wrote in The Weekend Australian's Inquirer section of April 20 that ...
In the sad and dirty aftermath of World War I, something shining emerged from the ashes: The Anzac legend. It is estimated that more than 15 million civilians and soldiers died in the conflict, and ...
This Anzac Day, renewed attention is being given to the overlooked service of Sikh soldiers in Australia's military history. Despite early 20th-century laws barring non-Europeans from enlisting, some ...
In the weeks before Anzac Day, a flurry of news stories emerge mobilising Australians to remember the Anzacs. We see in them familiar references to “The Diggers”, with their virtues of mateship, ...
Back in April 25, 2005, I wrote an opinion piece for The Sunday Age suggesting that the so-called traditional Anzac Day clash between Collingwood and Essendon is nothing more than a cynical marketing ...
However, there were huge attendances by respectful Aussies across the nation this morning and emotional scenes. Two Sunrise hosts broke down live-on air after reflecting on their personal connections ...
Just weeks after the start, more than a century ago, of the military operation on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Türkiye that sparked the Anzac legend, filmmakers were staging a re-enactment on Tamarama ...
This weekend 16-year old Juliet Talanoa will be attending her local dawn service in St Mary’s on Anzac Day – as she has done for many years – to remember fallen Australians who have served and died in ...