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ANZAC DAY
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Diggers’ discount at shoe store … Brisbane school in indigenous insult … Chinese students cop racism at uni? …
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Melbourne Machine out, leaving Rocket Ronnie to snooker
It’s that time of year again … No, the snooker world championships. Our man in England has it covered, from Aussie hope Neal Robertson to the celebrated comeback of Ronnie “Rocket” O’Sullivan.
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iSentia index: O’Farrell edges out Swan, Diggers march up the ranks
Tony Abbott got more print mentions than the Prime Minister this week, and that may continue as more and more Australians see him as the likely next PM.
READ MORELess cynicism about the Anzac spirit
Crikey readers talk healthcare costs, advertising on the Bureau of Meteorology website and the Anzac spirit.
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Christopher Pyne’s strange and dated Anzac Day culture war
Christopher Pyne’s lament that Anzac Day is in danger of being overlooked is absurd, and a clear effort to relaunch the culture wars.
READ MORESlipper and the presumption of innocence
Crikey readers have their say.
READ MOREAnzac Day is about honouring our military not the justification of war
Crikey readers have their say.
READ MOREAnzac Day and why we need to question ‘myths’ of war
So once again we slog up the hill, shouldering the usual baggage for the Anzac wars.
READ MOREThe futility of Earth Hour
Crikey readers have their say.
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Crikey readers have their say.
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Raising an eyebrow — and a glass — to ANZAC Day celebrations
So the Australian Defence Force is concerned about “the increasingly excessive use of alcohol during Anzac Day commemorations nowadays”.
READ MOREWhat the media must know about Anzac Day
It’s a little over a month away from one of those immensely important historic dates — April 25 — which prompt us to think about who were are and how we got here.
READ MOREAnother Anzac Day and some new angles
It was moving to read in The Sunday Age a story reporting that records mapping the location of 3906 Vietnamese soldiers killed and buried by Australians during the Task Force operations had been given to Vietnam.
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A personal Anzac journey: finding family in France
To Troy Wilkinson’s, G T C Williams was nothing more than the name of his long dead great-grandmother’s brother. That is, until a pilgrimage to his grave in France made him examine the young soldier’s short life.
READ MORERundle’s Friday argument starters: Bob Ellis, Mau Mau and Churchill
From sex scandals to ADFA to Anzac Day and colony wars in Kenya, Guy Rundle raises the big issues of the week.
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News’ hypocrisy … Money down at The Age …
News Limited’s hypocrisy on nepotisim, The Age’s Saturday media column ‘Media Browser’ as dead as a carbon-tax promise and other media tidbits of the day.
READ MORELotto promotion has Anzac Day by the balls
Anzac Day has been sold out by the NSW Lotteries with a “Marching On” OZ Lotto promotion — and the RSL says it’s “perfectly legal”.
READ MOREThe forgotten heroes of war. An Anzac Day special
The Anzac legacy is a contentious one, but if there’s one aspect of war we can all agree on, it’s that military animals — goats, elephants, dolphins and bear cubs! — are pretty adorable, writes Mel Campbell.
READ MOREWhen Anzac Day is unAustralian
Neil James, Executive Director of the Australia Defence Association, writes about the common myths associated with Anzac Day. Plus Tamils, hoodies, the Wilderness Society and more.
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It’d be un-Australian not to eat them
If there’s one way to celebrate the diggers, it’s with rolled oats and golden syrup and a cuppa after the dawn service. So make your own Anzac bikkies!
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Anzac Day: when commemoration becomes commerce
Francis Leach asks whether Collingwood and Essendon should have the automatic rights to play footy in honour of the ANZACs if they continue to abuse it.
READ MOREThe PR campaigns driving Anzac Day
For many Anzac Day is a solemn day of remembrance, but much of what Australians believe about it have been products more of recent PR and propaganda than of memory, writes Noel Turnbull.
READ MOREIt’s war: Anzac Day dissenters create bitter split between historians
A bitter academic feud has erupted over Australia’s Anzac Day legacy, with the authors of a new book questioning the day’s origins accused by a rival historian of intellectual dishonesty, writes Andrew Crook.
READ MOREThank God for the new sound of the Dawn Service
This year’s ANZAC Day Dawn Service will finally ditch God Save the Queen. It’s about time, says Barry Everingham — now we just have to get her face off coins and stamps…
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