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Joan Beaumont

Joan Beaumont

Joan Beaumont is Professor Emerita in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University and author of Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War (2013), joint editor of Serving our Country: Indigenous Australians: War, defence and citizenship (2018), and author of Australia's Great Depression (2022).

Joan Beaumont reviews 'Anzac: The unauthorised biography' by Carolyn Holbrook

March 2015, no. 369 01 March 2015
The resurgence of the Anzac legend in the last quarter of the twentieth century took many Australians by surprise. In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, it seemed that the rituals of Anzac Day would wither and fade away as the generations who fought the two world wars died. It proved not to be so. ‘Anzac’, to use the common shorthand, now dominates the national memory of war as strongly as it e ... (read more)

Joan Beaumont reviews 'Anzac Memories: Living with the legend' by Alistair Thomson

May 2014, no. 361 28 April 2014
Be warned! The commemorative tsunami is on its way. As James Brown put it recently in Anzac’s Long Shadow (2014), we are now witnessing an Anzac ‘arms race’, as Australians compete to find ‘bigger and better ways to commemorate our sacrificed soldiers’. The bill to the Australian state and federal taxpayers, Brown calculates, will be nearly $325 million. With a further $300 million proje ... (read more)
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