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Teaching history through asking questions on student excursions

Couple of articles from recent edition of Teaching History
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Drivel behind the Anzac cloak is still drivel: Colonel Arthur Burke, Kevin Rudd, Barnaby Joyce

Analysis of recent remarks of Barnaby Joyce compared with some precedents
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Red poppies and bare ground: why do we discriminate among our war dead?

A contrast between how we treat deaths in our Overseas Wars and in the Australian Wars
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Audit Office (ANAO) performance audit on management of the War Memorial project

Audit Office's scathing report on the management of the War Memorial's redevelopment project.
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Compass points to more knowledge of Australia-Makassar connection

Recent ABC Compass program on family connections with Makassar visitors
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Minister provides details on how to lodge Expression of Interest in War Memorial Council

Official advice on how to lodge an Expression of Interest ...
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From 50 years ago: Humphrey McQueen's pioneer writing on the Frontier Wars

Three articles (1973-81) from historian Humphrey McQueen on frontier conflict ...
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War: a poem by Alan Pentland

Contrasts the treatment of uniformed soldiers with that of First Nations ...