Search Results: Anzac Day
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AUSTRALIA
- Luke Walladge
- 17 March 2011
20 Comments
The NRL and national soccer competition already play matches on Good Friday, a move which they made without input from church groups. Now is the time for churches to collaborate with the AFL on a Good Friday match, or else it will be left behind again.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Harvey
- 23 February 2011
3 Comments
Gallipolli was a disaster and a relatively minor conflict, but it is upon such 'minor' conflicts that Empires are built. These songs go to the heart of a contradictory dilemma: the love of country on the one hand and the ugly extremes of patriotism on the other.
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AUSTRALIA
- Paul Cleary
- 24 August 2010
3 Comments
Kevin Rudd's failure to embrace the Timor legend with more imagination and
substance was a missed opportunity to connect with Labor's Second World
War legacy. Wartime Prime Minister John Curtin saw the guerilla war in
Timor as a unique and significant part of turning back the Japanese
tide.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
as she lies there, somehow she feels time creeping — some inchoate sense, sense of the Grim Reaper reaping with his scathing scythe, or Father Time with a sieve ...
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ENVIRONMENT
Rudd is technically correct that the opposition parties stymied his CPRS bills, but the buck stops with his disappointing climate policy leadership. Upon the failure of Australian parliamentary politics, we need now to find the courage to support mass non-violent
public action modelled on Vietnam War protest.
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AUSTRALIA
- Aurelien Mondon
- 23 April 2010
5 Comments
As Anzac Day approaches, Australian flags adorn our streets. To many, this display of nationalism is inoffensive and appears even as a sign of
cohesion. But it may also be a worrying facet of the growing appeal
found in exclusionary identity politics.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Visontay
- 23 April 2010
9 Comments
The salary cap in sport is one of the last remnants of Australian
egalitarianism. This is one of the reasons why the Melbourne Storm's
behaviour is so offensive. It is an offence against one of the values Australians hold so dear, especially at Anzac Day — a
fair go.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 22 April 2010
War films tread a fine line if they are to respect the
experiences of soldiers without glorifying war. Beneath Hill
60 is the true story of Australian miner-soldiers tasked with tunnelling
beneath the front lines during World War I.
It is not unkind to the Anzac myths.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 21 April 2010
14 Comments
Harry was 18, a knockabout bush larrikin ready to give anything a try. He joined the Second Machine Gun Battalion on 10
February 1915 and landed at Gallipoli on 16 August. For the next four months he, like so many of his fellow
soldiers, had an undistinguished, brutalising time, memories of which
would stay with him forever.
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INFORMATION
- Mick O’Donnell
- 24 April 2009
1 Comment
There he was, this hunched over figure of a man, sitting in one of the
furthermost pews, detached, eyes withdrawn, his face pale, features old
and weather beaten. John O'Malley was always a mystery.
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AUSTRALIA
- Ruby J. Murray
- 24 April 2009
31 Comments
The hype surrounding the AFL's annual Anzac Day match has reached near-sacred heights. Asking what it means to have football played on Anzac Day is as risky as wondering why the Digger is the most powerful expression of Australian identity.
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AUSTRALIA
- Nick Toscano
- 20 April 2009
43 Comments
Although it was a military disaster, the battle of Gallipoli was a defining moment in Australia's history. But that same battle also marked a nation's destruction: a campaign was underway to exterminate the Armenian race.
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