Tag: World War I
Sunday essay: if growing US-China rivalry leads to ‘the worst war ever’, what should Australia do?
A military officer salutes during a parade to commemorate the anniversary of the founding of Communist China in Beijing. Mark Schiefelbein/AP
Should Australia join the United...
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...
‘I want to scream and scream’: Australian nurses on the Western Front were also victims of war
An unusually sturdy and comfortable CCS during the first world war. Australian War Memorial
The revival of interest in Anzac since the 1980s has...
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...