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Critical Witness: Official war artists after 1999
The Official War Art Scheme was initiated during the First World War and is one of the longest-running art commissioning programs in Australia. Since 1999, official war artists have deployed internationally and within Australia to "observe, record and interpret" the activities of the Australian Defence Force. Official war artists are critical witnesses to contemporary conflict and the experience of Australian service personnel. They embed with Australian forces in dangerous and charged environments, recording the dramatic and violent, as well as the routine and cultural aspects of military operations. This exhibition presents work by official war artists since 1999, including Tony Albert (Girramay/Kuku Yalanji peoples), Rick Amor, Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, Jon Cattapan, Peter Churcher, Shaun Gladwell, Susan Norrie, eX de Medici, Lewis Miller, Ben Quilty, Wendy Sharpe and Alick Tipoti (Kala Lagaw Ya people).
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The Holocaust: Witnesses and Survivors
The Holocaust reveals the extremes of humanity's capacity for evil, as well as its spirit of endurance and survival. This exhibition represents the Holocaust through the experiences of some of the survivors who made new lives in post-war Australia, as well as those of Australian official war artist Alan Moore, who accompanied British troops as they liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany.
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Official Histories
Official histories are "official" in the sense they are commissioned by government as the national record of Australia's involvement in particular conflicts.
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'You can't help but think, what could have been'
Ron Dennis never really knew his father. His father Bernard enlisted when Ron was too young to remember him and died in New Guinea on Armistice Day 1943, six days before Ron's sixth birthday.
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The saddest selfie
It's a striking image of a fresh-faced young man taking a photograph of himself reflected in a dresser mirror more than 100 years ago. Less than a year later, 21-year-old Captain "Rich" Baker was dead, one of the last Australians to be killed in action during the First World War.
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'I saw the look of shock in their eyes'
Baden Pascoe was with his parents when the news came. His older brother Percival had been serving as a stoker aboard the light cruiser HMAS Sydney when it was sunk by the German raider Kormoran in November 1941.
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'He always said that the Bible in his pocket was the thing that saved him'
When Alfred Dow was hit by shrapnel during the Siege of Tobruk, a small pocket-sized copy of the New Testament saved his life. He was one of more than 50 "Black Rats of Tobruk" and one of more than 2,000 Indigenous Australians who served during the Second World War.
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The Simpson Prize 2024
"Commemoration of the Anzac tradition has widespread support in Australia despite different historical interpretations and debates about the nature and significance of the Anzac legend." To what extent does your own research support this view?
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Australian War Memorial commemorates 30 years of Unknown Australian Soldier
This Remembrance Day marks 30 years since the Unknown Australian Soldier was interred at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
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Remembrance Day Commemorative Address
The Commemorative Address for Remembrance Day 2023 was delivered by Lieutenant General Natasha Fox, AO, CSC
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'Peace and quiet is what one asks for'
It's Spring 1915 and a lone soldier stands on guard outside a prisoners' tent, armed with his rifle. The moment was captured more than 100 years ago in a deceptively simple, but elegant, pastel and gouache drawing by the Australian artist Iso Rae. Rae was one of only two Australian women artists who were able to depict the First World War from such close quarters.
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Merchant Navy National Commemorative Ceremony Address
Memorial Director, Matt Anderson's address at the Merchant Navy National Commemorative Ceremony, Merchant Navy National War Memorial, Kings Park, Canberra on 22 October 2023.
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The "Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels": looking beyond the myth
The popular myth of the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels has throughout the generations asserted the belief that Papuan carriers, during the 1942 battle for Kokoda, willingly provided assistance to the Australian war effort as volunteers. However, contradictions surround the history of the Papuan carriers concerning their recruitment, treatment, and working conditions.
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The flag on Anzac House by Joe Maxwell
The Flag: Anzac House by Joe Maxwell, The Reveille, June 1930, p 11.'A few minutes after we had captured our objective on September 20, 1917, Corps Headquarters was informed: "Objective reached. Australian flag flying on Anzac House."
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