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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
- Henry Reynolds on war, its effects, and why we keep doing it (3 September 2021)
- Sue Wareham in Pearls & Irritations on whether soldiers die in vain – and what PMs say about this (31 August 2021)
- Gareth Knapman on Bain Attwood on terra nullius (31 August 2021)
- Margaret Simons on the ABC on the responsibilities of journalists who use social media (30 August 2021)
- Matthew Haultain-Gall’s book on how Australians boast about our Great War in France but are less interested in what we did in Belgium; Romain Fathi’s review (30 August 2021)
- Alan Stephens on the ‘bright shining lie’ of the ADF in Afghanistan (20 August 2021)
- David Stephens on how arms manufacturers are the real winners from the tragedy of Afghanistan (19 August 2021 with later material)
- Paul Daley in Guardian Australia on prime ministerial bullshit about soldiers dying in vain, particularly in Afghanistan (16 August 2021)
- Paul Strangio of Monash University on a survey of who were Australia’s best prime ministers (2 August 2021)