There is much talk of a possible peace-dividend for Australia with operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, East-Timor and the Solomon Islands concluded or drawing to a close. This is not the first time that a government has bid farewell to arms
Lt Duncan Chapman – first ashore at Gallipoli
It is just before dawn on the 25 April, 1915 (it was a Sunday), a few miles off the Gallipoli Peninsular one of the most famous pages in Australian history is about
So why have I decided to write Uncommonwealth – well it is because I think Donald Horne was a douche. Not to hack on one of the pre-eminent thinkers and social critics of Australian public life in the 1960s –