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It’s beyond time that the country began honestly commemorating its past in conflict, for all its complexities, its good and its considerable bad
Rarely is Australia’s penchant for selective historical memory on starker display than on Anzac Day.
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Restored 1920 silent film Ireland Will Be Free recalls the anguished debates among Australian Catholics over conscription and Irish independence, led by the legendary archbishop Daniel Mannix and his complex confidant John Wren
Fourteen Australian recipients of the highest Commonwealth military honour, the Victoria Cross, are mounted on grey charges. They lead the carriage of the Irish-born Archbishop of Melbourne, Daniel Mannix, along Bourke Street in Melbourne.
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Chicago pacifist Walter Griffin’s design for Australia’s new capital promised so much – even German beer gardens. But when war broke out, his ideas were shunned by planners and politicians alike, and a more prosaic city emerged
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The New South Wales governor, arguably the most eulogised of colonial leaders, ordered the massacre of Indigenous men, women and children at Appin
Australia has long revered the fifth governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, as an enlightened humanitarian who brought civilisation to the colony.
But it’s time for a rethink.
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Collingwood fans have a right to be angry after the United Patriots Front conflated their ignorance and vile hatred of Islam with their beloved club
I am a Collingwood supporter.
That’s a difficult thing to be today.
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