Australia’s unknown soldier: a powerful symbol of loss and faith

The tomb of the unknown soldier in the Hall of Memory at the Australian War Memorial might seem to the casual visitor the timeless and natural symbolic centre of the memorial. But it was not always so: it was only in 1993 that the body of an unknown Australian soldier was repatriated and entombed here

1915 in Australia: the reality of total war sinks in

1915 was a critical year for Australians, and not just because of the pride and myth-making associated with Gallipoli. Today we struggle to capture a sense of the profound shock and anxiety the landing at Anzac Cove brought to Australia. But it was this, together with a wider understanding that the war was not going well, that defined 1915 and drew Australians ever deeper into the vortex of total war

Получение модифицированных нефтеполимерных смол и применение их в составе водомасляных эмульсий

Использование нефтеполимерных смол в качестве стабилизаторов в водомасляных эмульсиях.Use of polimeric petroleum resins as stabilizers in water-in-oil emulsions

\u27Spending ourselves and our money\u27: The Red Cross and the management of civilian commitment in Australia, 1914-1918

Using local branch reports of the Australian Red Cross, this article charts the shifting emotions that Australian civilians exhibited towards the First World War in the years between 1914 and 1919. As the war intensified, and its costs increased, civilians themselves consistently revised their hopes and expectations, and internalized their own place in a war that increasingly offered little sign of ending. Among these Australians the central, painful, dynamic of the war was a persistent erosion of emotional resilience at the same time that their anxiety over loved ones—and even their antipathies towards fellow citizens—demanded and reaffirmed their emotional commitment to the cause in which they were so invested

Review essay : insiders, outsiders, and shared stories

The article reviews several books including &quot;Being Australian: Narratives of National Identity,&quot; by Catriona Elder, &quot;Australian Pastoral: The Making of a White Landscape,&quot; by Jeanette Hoorn, and &quot;The Australians: Insiders and Outsiders on the National Character Since 1770,&quot; by John Hirst.<br /

Resisting the call to arms : men who did not enlist in World War 1

Historian Dr Bart Ziino has researched thousands of records that give an insight into an often overlooked aspect of World War I &ndash; men who chose not to enlist for service