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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.
- Australia’s haunted house: Mark McKenna in The Monthly on how the Australian War Memorial showcases our past and perhaps distorts our future (4 February 2020)
- Amy McQuire on why Australia Day really doesn’t cut it for Indigenous Australians, particularly when they try to explain it to their children: article in Guardian Australia; new book Day Break (with Matt Chun) (27 and 31 January 2021).
- Michael Piggott reviews Doug Morrissey’s third volume on the thug and criminal psychopath, Ned Kelly (25 January 2021).
- Australian War Memorial drops ‘young and free’ branding after national anthem update: Doug Dingwall in Canberra Times (6 January 2021).
- Michael Piggott reviews a Parliament House exhibition on Edmund Barton, our first prime minister (4 January 2021).
- Paul Daley on the weapons maker seducing an Australian children’s charity (4 December 2020).
- John Myrtle reviews Kieran Finnane’s Peace Crimes, about Pine Gap protests (26 November 2020).
- Michelle Fahy in Pearls and Irritations on conflicts of interest in defence industry lobbying (and links to a second article on the corruption history of Naval Group, our preferred builder of submarines, and to a third on how gunrunners exercise ‘soft power’ by their support for worthy causes) (various dates)