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How shall we honour those who fought for freedom? A reflection on Anzac Day 2016

April 25, 2016

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Each Anzac Day I find myself struggling between a desire to honour the sacrifice made by those who went to war and the desire to dissociate myself from the idealisation of our soldiers as beyond critique and above reproach. I want to affirm the day...

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Never Trust the Bastards. A Reflection On Anzac Day

In Peace and Conflict

April 25, 2014

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Among the living lay the dead. As we dug ourselves in, we found them in layers stacked on top of one another. One company after another had been shoved into the drum-fire and steadily annihilated. Ernst Junger, German officer I came across the quote...

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