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Field Marshal the Lord Birdwood

Centenary of ANZAC

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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.
Hell's mouth, 2019 Cam Neville

Facing the inferno

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Tara James speaks to Cam Neville about his portrait series, Firefighters.
Mark Loane

An active and contemplative life

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From Cicero through St. Augustine and Coluccio Salutati right up to the present day, we have regularly weighed the significance, respective merits and competing priorities of the “active” versus the “contemplative” life. Can they coexist?
Alan Goldberg

Beyond the bow tie

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Nathan Faiman delves into the rich life story and legacy of Alan Goldberg.
Helen Borthwick née Pearson

The personal and the historical

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Where do we draw a line between the personal and the historical? Although she died in Melbourne in 1975, when I was not quite eleven years old, I have the vividest memories of my maternal grandmother Helen Borthwick.
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