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Tattooist of Auschwitz arrives on screen and doesn’t shy from the book’s controversy

Tattooist of Auschwitz arrives on screen and doesn’t shy from the book’s controversy

Heather Morris’ book was an enormous success, but was mired in a controversy about accuracy. The series based on it doesn’t shy way from that.

  • by Karl Quinn

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Submarines get a battering
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Submarines get a battering

While rah-rahs get a bargain.

Bomber Command president taught pilots Luftwaffe attack manoeuvres

Bomber Command president taught pilots Luftwaffe attack manoeuvres

DFC citation said Houghton ‘displayed the upmost courage, fortitude and devotion to duty’.

  • by Tim Barlass
Statecraft takes the biscuit
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Statecraft takes the biscuit

And Nabiac gets ready to rock.

‘Like a civil war’: The real Battle of Brisbane that pitted allies against each other

‘Like a civil war’: The real Battle of Brisbane that pitted allies against each other

Over two days, American and Australian troops used batons, broken furniture, knives, guns, broken bottles and fists to settle scores.

  • by Tony Moore
Violence crisis demands urgent response

Violence crisis demands urgent response

Violence against women is under focus yet again – something that never seems to change.

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Anzac Day 2024 as it happened: Dawn services, two-up across the nation as Australia remembers its Diggers

Anzac Day 2024 as it happened: Dawn services, two-up across the nation as Australia remembers its Diggers

Australians are attending dawn services across the country and around the world to mark Anzac Day.

  • by Josefine Ganko and Catherine Naylor
Leon opened a drawer and found the lost history of his WWII veteran father
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Leon opened a drawer and found the lost history of his WWII veteran father

Proudly wearing Frans’ service medals at the King’s Park Anzac Day dawn service on Thursday morning Leon can retell his father’s WWII experience in extraordinary detail.

  • by Hamish Hastie
Anzac Day: Just the therapy Sydney needed to heal a ‘broken heart’

Anzac Day: Just the therapy Sydney needed to heal a ‘broken heart’

New RSL NSW president Mick Bainbridge says the community needed to come back together again for Anzac Day.

  • by Tim Barlass
Melbourne remembers those who served and lost their lives for Australia

Melbourne remembers those who served and lost their lives for Australia

Anzac Day in Melbourne this year marked the efforts of peacekeepers, who have served overseas for Australia in a bid to save lives in other countries.

  • by Alex Crowe
PM pays tribute on the Kokoda Track, ‘this great artery of mud and suffering and perseverance’

PM pays tribute on the Kokoda Track, ‘this great artery of mud and suffering and perseverance’

After two days climbing the muddy path through the mountains of PNG, Albanese and Marape marked the dawn service at the Isurava battlefield memorial.

  • by Matthew Knott