‘Machine guns and men in trenches’:On the eve of battle,Albert Jacka made an awful discovery

‘Machine guns and men in trenches’:On the eve of battle,Albert Jacka made an awful discovery

In early 1917,as the Allies prepared to take Bullecourt on the Western Front,Jacka was sent into No-Man’s Land.

  • byPeter FitzSimons

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Albert Jacka was Australia’s first Victoria Cross recipient for his actions in Gallipoli when Turkish troops launched an attack on troops dug in at Courtney’s Post.

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Frosty silence,then heated texts and an internal complaint:The undoing of the RSL NSW leadership

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The festival made headlines for being “disrespectful”. Now,the organisers are demanding compensation.

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RSL NSW goes to war … with itself
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An external consultant found the RSL NSW board was so dysfunctional it would be difficult for the organisation to support veterans and their families.

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Wildfires across Turkey threaten Anzac graves on Gallipoli peninsula

Wildfires across Turkey threaten Anzac graves on Gallipoli peninsula

At the site where an Allied landing was beaten back by Ottoman troops in 1915,the flames reached Canterbury Cemetery,where 22 soldiers from New Zealand are interred.

  • byRob Harris
Why this NSW MP says opposition is a ‘Coalition of cowards’ without Perrottet

Why this NSW MP says opposition is a ‘Coalition of cowards’ without Perrottet

Sydney MP Alex Greenwich says the NSW Coalition waited until Dominic Perrottet had left the building before abandoning his key policy.

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Shopping has been banned on Anzac Day. Next stop,turning off the pokies

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‘I don’t want to be a martyr’:Last Rat of Tobruk dies,aged 102

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Don’t just tinker with Anzac Day. What about our other public holidays?
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Don’t just tinker with Anzac Day. What about our other public holidays?

Is it appropriate to commemorate our nation’s military history by drinking like a fish at your local,but inappropriate to shop for Anzac biscuit ingredients at the supermarket?

  • byMary Ward