Just now we pause to mark the centenary of ANZAC, the day when, together with British, other imperial and allied forces, the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed at Gallipoli at the start of the ill-starred Dardanelles campaign.
The immediate chain of events that led to the outbreak of the First World War began 100 years ago on June 28.
I agonized over the choice of four songs to take with me to the ABC Studios for Alex Sloan’s Canberra 666 afternoon program, a sort of iteration of the old BBC Desert Island Discs.
Joanna Gilmour brings a mindful Douglas Mawson’s perspective to bear on the concept of isolation.
Penelope Grist finds photographer Matt Nettheim re-visiting a formative and fulfilling career tram stop.
Some years ago my colleague Andrea Wolk Rager and I spent several days in the darkened basement of a Rothschild Bank, inspecting every one of the nearly 700 autochromes created immediately before World War I by the youthful Lionel de Rothschild.