Just after Anzac Day I saw a film clip from the Bentley Blockade near Lismore, where 2000 people had gathered to block access to coal seam gas mining company Metgasco. In a misty dawn they had held their own Anzac memorial service. After ‘Lest we forget’, the camera panned to an older country woman. She […]
Australia at #CSG war on home soil: Invoking ANZAC to back #BentleyBlockade and #Pilliga
May 27, 2014
Soldiers’ lot a sorry Sir-vice, says ex-Digger Jim Duffield
March 29, 2014
[clear] James Brown, in his excellent book Anzac’s long shadow: the cost of our national obsession, makes the observation that “commemorating soldiers is not like connecting with them”, which is a point mostly appreciated by soldiers and service personnel. Nonetheless, it is more than moot, given that our national broadcaster has no defence and national […]
