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Reading on a Rainy Day, 1811 (Wikimedia Commons/McGill Library/George Mills
- Recent posts related to the Heritage Guardians campaign against the $498m extensions to the Australian War Memorial can be found in our campaign diary
- Lest We Forget; a series for Anzac Month: #1 Five years since Yassmin Abdel-Magied; #2 Paul Daley on patriotism; #3 Five years since The Honest History Book;#4 Will today’s children have to go to war?; #5 Honest History’s Alternative Guide to the Australian War Memorial; #6 Brendan Nelson is the new Chair of the Council of the Australian War Memorial – while keeping his day job as Australia-Pacific President of Boeing, world’s third biggest defence manufacturer by value of sales; #7 Murdoch Press has more than a century of form on warmongering; #8 Has the Australia the Diggers fought for been taken over by spivs and oligarchs? #9 Anzac roundup – Anzac is and should be contested (10-26 April 2022)
- Brad West claims corporate sponsorship of the Australian War Memorial undermines military professionalism (22 April 2022)
- Michael Piggott reviews the published diary of a Japanese internee in South Australia during World War II (10 April 2022)
- If there is to be a Museum of Australian Policing, will it just tell triumphant stories? Mark Finnane writes (9 April 2022)
- Should the Audit Office investigate the management of the $498m War Memorial project? Opportunity for public comment (by 19 April) (5 April 2022)
- Vale Brendon Kelson 1935-2022, public servant and campaigner (29 March 2022)