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.
ANZAC Day
Come in Spinner: Another Anzac Day and some new angles
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.
Rundle’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.
Media briefs: 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.
Lotto 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”.
The 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.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: When 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.
Daily Proposition: 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!
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.
It’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.
Thank 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…
Weekend warriors fear Defence razor gang
Continued cuts to the Defence budget will impact on the ability of the Army Reserve to train and retain soldiers, reservists have told Crikey. Tom Cowie goes behind the lines.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: A teacher spills on the BER
As a teacher in a NSW high school we are unable to comment on the computer rollout or building program. Which means I couldn’t possibly say that both of these programs are a disgusting waste of money for fear of the reprisals.
The annual Anzac Day debate misses the point. Again.
Every year as April 25 approaches, the nation descends into squabbling over the significance of Anzac Day. But re-read your history books, says Erdem Koc: it was an empire-led invasion that had very little to do with us as a nation or the freedoms we enjoy today.
The absurdity that is Australia Day
In the old days, Australia Day meant something: the end of the summer holiday period, celebrated with a long weekend. Would it really be contrary to our national character to try to return it to that?
Now open, the Crikey angry flyers’ lounge
Tiger Airways had now said sorry three times in six days to angry customers and the RSL.
Tips and rumours: The real boat people story?
A Crikey tipster lets in on the “real story” behind the Ashmore reef explosion, while another reckons the Immigration Department is broke.
Tiger’s ANZAC Day rip-off exposed
Tiger Airways launched a blatant Anzac Day rip off this morning leaving itself open to prosecution under the Crimes Act and by the ACCC.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: VB defends its beery philanthrophic Anzac Day appeal
Today, VB’s group manager Paul Donaldson defends the Raise a Glass Appeal for Anzac Day. And Crikey readers weigh in on everything from the Republic to the Westgate Bridge.
Victorian bushfires: Australian spirit present
I was also in Marysville that Saturday afternoon. How different my impressions were to Peter Chamber’s, writes Julie Bell.
Britt Lapthorne and ugly Australian nationalism
We’re not too strong at consistency in Australia, particularly when we’re feeling nationalistic, writes Bernard Keane.
There’s no Anzac in Afghanistan
Are Australians any clearer about what our contingent is supposedly doing in Afghanistan than they were about the aims of the Gallipoli campaign? asks Jeff Sparrow.
