and Bennelong, an Aboriginal man. It's an extraordinary story and an important part of our history but it's often glossed over in history texts and it's rarely mentioned at all in books written for children. Yet the story provides a rich opportunity for highlighting...
anzac day The Australian and New Zealand soldiers who fell at Gallipoli (and subsequent conflicts) are commemorated each year on 25 April with Anzac Day, held on the anniversary of the first landing at Gallipoli. The Dardanelles campaign aimed to quickly and decisively capture Constantinople, and ...
In recent years, Australian children’s picture books dealing with the First World War have balanced the increasingly sentimentalized construct of the Australian soldier as a victim of trauma and the traditional use of Australian war literature as a mean