ANZACS

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Politics & Society

After the fighting: The soldiers who studied

After WW1, returning soldiers faced the question of ‘what next’? University study was the answer for some

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Politics & Society

Beyond Anzac: What really shaped our nation?

Australia’s reputation as one of the first progressive democracies in the world may have been forged peacefully, but is nonetheless worthy of commemoration

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Education

Remembrance Day: Updating an incomplete record

Almost a century after the First World War, the University’s war records are still being updated with new names of those who served and died - and there may be more

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Arts & Culture

Dinner in No-Man’s Land

As the country marks Anzac Day, we look at how the act of sharing food during a time of war, even across enemy lines, is a potent symbol of our humanity.

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Politics & Society

Anzac Day not just for the boys

By the late 1920s, Anzac Day had become male-centric. But that wasn’t the case during WW1 and the immediate post-war years, when nurses played a central role in commemorations.

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Environment

Swapping guns for gardening

Returned WWII servicemen and women were given a fresh start through training in horticulture and gardening

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Arts & Culture

Surreal stories make the best operas

Composer Elliott Gyger has transformed David Malouf’s much loved novella ‘Fly Away Peter’ into a high impact opera about the First World War

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Arts & Culture

The Water Diviner: Unearthing the Gallipoli legend

A chance encounter prompts the co-writers of The Water Diviner to share a new perspective on the Gallipoli conflict

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