What’s open on Anzac Day?
The public holiday has brought in changed trading times, with many businesses shutting up shop to honour the Anzacs.
Anzac Centenary
How to use your free Virtual Candle
Australians will commemorate Anzac Day from home on Saturday. This is a step-by-step guide to using your free Virtual Candle and other content to Light Up The Dawn.
‘You’ll never know what happened to me’
Archie Fingher went to war aged 14 in search of adventure — a quest that led him to a prison camp where the worst atrocity of Australia’s military history would take place.
Covered up to hide the horror
Alan’s wife never truly knew what became of her husband — part of what his South Australian family believe was a bid to hide a horror of unbelievable magnitude and a shocking failure to save the victims.
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Death Railway: ‘I saw heads on poles’
Jim Kerr’s first experience as a prisoner was seeing slain civilians’ heads stuck on poles. Then he became a slave labourer for the enemy.
War vet returns to hell in VR
Two veterans of the darkest chapters in our history have used virtual reality to revisit the places they called Hell. Now they want other Australians to do it, saying “everyone should watch this”.
The most beloved of doomed heroes
John Kinder had the dashing looks of a movie star; but it was his extraordinary courage, defending emaciated, dying men against their brutal captors, that made him a real hero.
Australia has forgotten, it’s not fair
As a TV journalist, Georgi Glover was no stranger to confronting stories. But a personal connection to a hideous tragedy has made her determined to bring it to light.
$100k project to fix Rippon Lea’s ‘fern fever’ garden arch
It houses one of the largest and last-known ferneries in the southern hemisphere, and now a 40m-long cast-iron arch at Elsternwick’s Rippon Lea Estate is being restored. Here’s how it will affect visitors to the historic site.
‘Australia would have been isolated’
D-DAY happened a world away from Australia’s struggle against Japan — but if it had failed, as top brass secretly feared, we would have been alone. This is why June 6 matters.
Anzac Day 2019: Dawn service atop the Sydney Harbour Bridge
GALLERY: A dawn service was held on the summit of the Sydney Harbour Bridge to commemorate ANZAC Day. Money raised by the members of the public who climbed the bridge went to RSL DefenceCare.
Go back to WW1 like never before
IN a battle of terrifying intensity, Patrick Budgen was a one-man whirlwind. His story is one of many told as never before in the new ANZAC 360 virtual reality experience. TRY IT.
Plan for ‘creepy’ burial plots rejected
AUSTRALIA wanted to honour its more than 8000 soldiers lost on the Western Front with fake burial plots in a plan author Rudyard Kipling branded “creepy” and fought to block.
The enduring legacy of post-traumatic stress
HE had survived the horrors of Gallipoli and Pozieres. But World War I veteran Dick Devers ended up suffering a terrible death when he returned home.
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