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A more than 100-year-old Adelaide poetry prize that launched with a donation of £200 and has been won by writers including Max Harris and Kate Llewellyn is up for grabs again this year.
Sapphire FM has produced a one hour radio documentary remembering and acknowledging the Anzac Legacy.
Sapphire FM has produced a one hour radio documentary remembering and acknowledging the Anzac Legacy.
Sapphire FM has produced a one hour radio documentary remembering and acknowledging the Anzac Legacy.
How Anzac got lost in a cult of veneration Politicians who wrap themselves in the flag of a generation of fallen have separated Anzac from the realities of modern Australia and the context of why these wars were fought. Share Difficult though it may be to conceive of a time when Anzac did not dominate rituals of Australian nationhood, not long ago Anzac Day itself was on virtual life support. Its dwindling observance in the 1960s and ’70s, largely on account of the unpopular Vietnam War, but also because of the dubious overtones of empire and Britishness, brought forth widespread prediction...