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Reading on a Rainy Day, 1811 (Wikimedia Commons/McGill Library/George Mills)
- Henry Reynolds in Pearls and Irritations on how Anglo-Australian atavism lies at the root of current attitudes to Anzac, Australia Day, and Captain Cook (16 May 2018).
- Robyn J. Whitaker in The Conversation on the place of the Bible in Australian history (16 May 2018).
- Paul Daley (Guardian Australia) looks at a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia on the genocide of the Tasmanians (15 May 2018).
- Two war poems, one from a disabled veteran, the other from a former diplomat (13 May 2018).
- Honest History’s submission to the parliamentary inquiry into Australia’s national institutions (11 May 2018).
- Budget summary: Anzac centenary winds down, War Memorial digitisation gets thumbs up, Captain Cook rewarmed, non-MSM comments (11 May 2018).
- Henry Reynolds in Pearls and Irritations on Australia’s perpetual war footing (8 May 2018).
- William Malone and the entrenched myth of Kiwi insubordination at Gallipoli (8 May 2018).
- 80 years on since Pig Iron Bob: new documentary has contemporary relevance (7 May 2018).
- Comments on the opening of the Monash Centre at Villers-Bretonneux – not everything went smoothly, unlike (most of) the battles fought by Sir John Monash (30 April 2018).
- Miscellany for Anzac Day, mostly from an alternative perspective (25 April 2018).
- Alison Broinowski in Pearls and Irritations on Anzackery and some related themes (24 April 2018).
- Ben Brooker in Overland on Anzac spending for nationalist validation (24 April 2018).
- Andrew Hamilton from Eureka Street remembers shared humanity on Anzac Day (23 April 2018).
- Catriona May from the University of Melbourne writes about PTSD (23 April 2018).
- Doug Morrissey writes for Honest History on the Irishness of Ned Kelly, romance and reality (23 April 2018).
- Camp Gallipoli rort epitaph derived from FOI claim (22 April 2018).
- War Memorial commissions Turkish film about Gallipoli and commemoration (22 April 2018).
- Former senior public servant, Michael Keating, in Pearls and Irritations on taxation issues and the need for a broad revenue base (19 April 2018).
- Richard Flanagan at the Press Club politely shafts some Australian sacred cows (19 April 2018).
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