Tag: Anzac day
Chloé: how a 19th-century French nude ended up in a Melbourne pub – and became an icon for Australian soldiers
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Chloé, the French nude by Jules Joseph Lefebvre, is an Australian cultural icon.
Chloé made its debut at the 1875 Paris Salon and won medals...
Two-up, Gallipoli and the ‘fair go’: why illegal gambling is at the heart of the Anzac myth
Spinner tosses the penny during a Two Up game at Flemington Racecourse during the Anzac Day in Melbourne in 2021. Diego Dedele/ AAP
Two-up is an...
Sunday essay: How leftist, feminist poet Dame Mary Gilmore became ‘Aunt Mary’ in the PM’s political narrative
Images: Wikimedia Commons and AAP/EPA/Erik S. Lesser
Dame Mary Gilmore died at 97 in late 1962, two and a half years before the birth of...
The years condemn: Australia is forgetting the sacred trees planted to remember our war dead
Picture: Author supplied
On Anzac Day each year, Australians remember those who served and died in wars and conflicts. We may attend a dawn...
The Anzac legend has blinded Australia to its war atrocities. It’s time for a reckoning
Australian soldiers in the trenches at Anzac Cove
on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey in 1915.
State Library of Victoria/Wikimedia Commons
For years, Australians have...
Sunday essay: Japanese Australian veterans and the legacy of anti-Asian racism
Japanese internees starting to leave the train
which brought them from Hay on their way to the Loveday Internment
Camp Group in the Barmera...