April
A few neo-Nazis tried to disrupt Anzac Day. The MCG crowd answered
Indigenous elder Colin Hunter got a rousing welcome at the AFL’s traditional Anzac Day game, hours after right-wing activists tried to disrupt Melbourne’s dawn service.
PM calls Anzac Day service disruption a ‘disgrace’
Anthony Albanese has condemned a far-right wing disruption of Anzac Day dawn services in Melbourne.
Wall St’s false signal; Anzac booing outrage; Musk’s reign unravels
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This Anzac Day, we owe our soldiers more than speeches and silence
The Aussie Diggers have been let down too many times by a system that failed to bring the tools and technology they needed to win. Now is the time to act.
Albanese and Dutton pause campaigns for Anzac Day services
The prime minister attended the dawn service at the War Memorial in Canberra, while the opposition leader was at Pine Rivers RSL in his Brisbane electorate of Dickson.
China boosts defence; Punch thrown in Kooyong; Fundies’ top 15 stocks
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Anzac narrative must not get stuck in ‘Gallipoli’ victimology
The era of geopolitical uncertainty demands a mature reckoning with our alliance obligations and our own responsibilities.
November 2024
On Remembrance Day: new ways to understand an old war
Scholarship on the Great War extends far beyond the traditional focus on heroic but doomed Anzacs.
July 2024
Anzac Day shopping ban restricts choice, retailers say
Retail trade will be banned on Anzac Day in NSW, giving the state some of the nation’s most restrictive rules in a move to counter “creeping commercialism”.
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April 2024
Why young people embrace the emotion of Anzac Day
It’s 109 years since Australian and New Zealand soldiers climbed the steep, craggy hills at Gallipoli, but the day still has a unique hold on the nation’s soul and imagination.
Thousands join Anzac services as nation seeks to heal
Anzac Day was labelled a chance for Sydney to come together and heal after a series of terrifying knife attacks.
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PM pays tribute to ‘great artery of suffering’ on the Kokoda Track
After two days climbing through Papua New Guinea’s mountains, Anthony Albanese and James Marape marked the dawn service at the Isurava battlefield memorial.
‘Decolonising’ Anzac Day’s revival
The day offers a welcome counterpoint in an age of fragmenting identity politics in which it is becoming more difficult to find agreement about Australia’s national identity.
‘Extraordinary sacrifice’: Albanese, Marape end historic Kokoda trek
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the Kokoda Track hike with his PNG counterpart James Marape gave him an appreciation of the sacrifices made by WWII soldiers.
‘You’re the chief now’: Crowds greet Albanese at start of Kokoda Track
Long-time residents of Papua New Guinea said it was the most lavish welcome an Australian leader had received since Paul Keating in 1992.
Why Anzac Day’s soft power is so important to social cohesion
Any potential adversary knows that a low-risk way to wound a diverse, multicultural society is to pick it apart until it turns against itself.
China rebuff in PM’s Anzac Day PNG push
Stronger ties with Australia’s northern neighbour will help promote Pacific stability and freedom, the prime minister says.
Albanese to visit the Kokoda Track for Anzac Day
The prime minister and his PNG counterpart James Marape are expected to attend a dawn service at Isurava on April 25.