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Contributions To The Debate

Paul Daley, 'As the Ben Roberts-Smith case proves, it’s time for Australia to abandon our farcical Anzac myths', The Guardian, Jun 1, 2023.
Paul Daley, 'This Anzac Day, beware politicians glossing over war’s evils to justify further military adventurism', The Guardian, Apr 25, 2023
Paul Daley, 'The Australian War Memorial’s intransigence on depicting the frontier wars speaks louder than words', The Guardian, Oct 17, 2022.
Henry Reynolds, 'Recognising the warriors: Henry Reynolds on the war memorial’s surprising change of direction', The Conversation, Oct 6, 2022.
Paul Daley, 'The Anzac cloak has shielded the Australian War Memorial from criticism. Its recognition of frontier violence is long overdue', The Guardian, Sep 29, 2022.
Henry Reynolds, 'Truth and Treaties: the ongoing legacy of the Uluru statement', John Menadue – Pearls and Irritations, Mar 17, 2021.
Paul Daley, 'Amid the false history over 26 January, it pays to consider what Australia was really built on', The Guardian, Jan 26, 2021.
Sue Wareham, 'Let's not allow the Australian War Memorial to become something much uglier', Canberra Times, Feb 27, 2021.
Henry Reynolds, 'The true story behind January 26', Sydney Morning Herald, Jan 24, 2021.
Paul Daley, 'Australia is in for a shock as war crimes investigation brings reality of war to the Anzac myth', The Guardian, Nov 13, 2020.
Douglas Newtown, 'Armistice Day: Old Bones, Young Soldiers, Long Wars', John Menadue – Pearls and Irritations, Nov 11, 2020.
Tony Smith, 'An Indigenous inspired paradigm for the War Memorial', John Menadue – Pearls and Irritations, Jun 25, 2020.
Ian Bowie, 'Aboriginal issues and New Zealand’s indigenous experience', John Menadue – Pearls and Irritations, Jun 25, 2020.
Barry Corr, ‘The chokehold of slavery on settler memory’, Overland, Jun 17, 2020.
Peter FitzSimons, 'A statue of warrior Pemulwuy in Hyde Park - what do you say, Clover?', Sydney Morning Herald, Jun 14, 2020.
Paul Daley, 'Scott Morrison should use Cook's 250th anniversary to insist Britain return the Gweagal shield', The Guardian, Jun 3, 2020.
John Carmody, 'Australia Day. We cannot allow our future to be based on falsity and denial', John Menadue – Pearls and Irritations, Jan 24, 2020.

Pemulwuy – Bidjigal Resistance Warrior

Cindy Purvis, The life and legacy of Pemulwuy, Junior Ron Rathbone Local History Prize, Bayside Council, 2016

Reflections on Anzac Day

Douglas Newton, ‘The fantasy that haunts our cult of the fallen’, Pearls and Irritations, Apr 24, 2022.
Peter Stanley, 'A strange Anzac day', Pearls and Irritations, Apr 25, 2021.
Marilyn Lake, 'Anzac and Australasia: war and democracy in our national museums', Pearls and Irritations, Apr 25, 2021.
Greg Lockhart, 'Reinventing ANZAC Day away from its imperial origins', Pearls and Irritations, Apr 25, 2021.
Douglas Newton, 'How do we show true respect for the Anzacs?', Pearls and Irritations, Apr 25, 2021.
Henry Reynolds, 'Anzac Day and the frontier wars', Pearls and Irritations, Apr 25, 2021.
Paul Daley, 'Australia’s leaders, its media and some historians persist in talking up the big Anzac game', The Guardian, Apr. 25, 2019.
Greg Lockhart, 'What we forget on Anzac Day', John Menadue – Pearls and Irritations, Apr. 25, 2019.
John Menadue, 'Best we forget – the Frontier and Maori Wars. An update', John Menadue – Pearls and Irritations, Apr. 24, 2019.
Henry Reynolds, 'Anzac Day', John Menadue – Pearls and Irritations, Apr. 24, 2019.
William Briggs, 'ANZAC Day: lest we forget the militarisation of the Australian economy', John Menadue – Pearls and Irritations, Apr. 24, 2019.
Douglas Newton, 'Reflections for Anzac Day. Why? How? To what end?', John Menadue – Pearls and Irritations, Apr. 23, 2019.
Paul Daley, 'Australia has reached peak Anzac. And not before time', The Guardian, Nov. 12, 2018.
Douglas Newton, 'Remembrance Day Address' Crows Nest Uniting Church, Nov. 11, 2018.
Marilyn Lake, 'Beyond Anzac: What really shaped our nation', University of Melbourne, Apr. 23, 2018.
John Menadue, 'The Anzac Myth', John Menadue – Pearls and Irritations, Apr. 25, 2017.

What Were We Fighting For?

Douglas Newton, 'Whitlam, Keating, Anzac, and the drums of wars past', Pearls and Irritations, May 13, 2021.
Greg Lockhart, 'What were we fighting for at Gallipoli, in Palestine and on the Western Front?' Five part series.
Part 1: Freedom from the ‘Prussian menace’? Jul 24, 2017.
Part 2: Empire against Asia. Jul 25, 2017.
Part 3: Empire over nation. Jul 26, 2017.
Part 4: A race strategy to save ‘White Australia’. Jul 27, 2017.
Part 5: Narrative Overview and Conclusion. Jul 28, 2017.
Source: John Menadue's blog: Pearls and Irritations

Radio Links

12 Jan 2021 - A podcast on 'Conscription in World War I' featuring Joan Beaumont. Originally broadcast on 13 Dec 2016, Big Ideas, ABC RN, (54.05 mins).
18 Jul 2020 - Interview with journalist Chris Masters, author of No Front Line: Australian Special Forces at War in Afghanistan (Allen & Unwin, Oct. 2019) on Saturday Extra, ABC RN, (20:35 mins).
8 Nov 2018 - Interview with historian Douglas Newtown on the real lessons of World War 1. Close to Home with Colin Hesse, Radio SkidRow (88.9FM). There will be sincere and solemn events on the Centenary of the Armistice of 1918. But prepare also for a hurricane of media puffery, a cascade of clichés, narrow nationalism, the familiar medley of cheers and tears. In contrast this interview focuses on the real lessons of the First World War. Radio SkidRow, (27:01 mins).
5 Aug 2018 - 'This constant war', Sunday Extra, ABC RN, interview with Stephan Gapps, author of The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the early colony, 1788-1817 (New South Books, 2018) on the history of military engagements between Europeans and Aboriginal Australians around the greater Sydney region. (15:23 mins).
26 Apr 2018 - 'ANZAC and the Frontier Wars', Close to Home with Colin Hesse, Radio SkidRow (88.9FM) - An interview with Jennifer Newman on Hazel Davies' research on the native desert pea, Anzac Day and the Frontier Wars. (11:l03 mins).
28 Mar 2018 - 'History and Australia's Future', Late Night Live with Phillip Adams, ABC RN. Interview with Mark McKenna on his essay Moment of Truth: History and Australia’s Future, Quarterly Essay 69, March 2018. (33:25 mins).
11 Mar 2018 - ‘Poland, World War II and Holocaust denial’, Rear Vision, ABC RN – About a controversial new law that makes it illegal to accuse Polish authorities during WW2 of complicity in the Holocaust. (29:19 mins).
7 Mar 2018 - 'The killing season', Late Night Live with Phillip Adams, ABC RN. Geoffrey B. Robinson discusses the Indonesian massacre of 1965-66 and reveals a level of international involvement in the mass killings that has been hidden for decades. (20:08 mins).

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