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ANZAC

Chloé: how a 19th-century French nude ended up in a Melbourne pub – and became an icon for Australian soldiers

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HappyWaldo/Wikimedia Commons 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...
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Two-up, Gallipoli and the ‘fair go’: why illegal gambling is at the heart of the Anzac myth

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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...
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Sunday essay: How leftist, feminist poet Dame Mary Gilmore became ‘Aunt Mary’ in the PM’s political narrative

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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...
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The years condemn: Australia is forgetting the sacred trees planted to remember our war dead

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  Picture: Author supplied On Anzac Day each year, Australians remember those who served and died in wars and conflicts. We may attend a dawn...
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The Anzac legend has blinded Australia to its war atrocities. It’s time for a reckoning

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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...
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Sunday essay: Japanese Australian veterans and the legacy of anti-Asian racism

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Japanese internees starting to leave the train which brought them from Hay on their way to the Loveday Internment Camp Group in the Barmera...
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In 1919, Anzac Day was commemorated despite the Spanish flu pandemic. In 2020, we will remember them again

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Picture: AAP/Paul Miller Anzac Day 2020 will be a far cry from the Australian War Memorial’s dawn service of recent years. While dignified and solemn,...
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Before the Anzac biscuit, soldiers ate a tile so hard you could write on it

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Christmas hard tack biscuit: Boer War. Australian War Memorial. Accession Number: REL/10747.  Courtesy of the Australian War Memorial Before Anzac biscuits found the sticky sweet...

Why China will be watching how we commemorate Anzac Day

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The Qingming Festival, also known as Tomb-Sweeping Day, is marked by Chinese people by going to the cemetery to clean up tombs, bring flowers,...
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