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Armistice Day [11 November 1930]

11 November 2022 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This article, about Armistice Day (later known as Remembrance Day), was published in The Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, NSW), 11 November 1930. The article warns against those who would prefer to not commemorate Armistice Day.] Armistice Day. The word “armistice” … [Read more...] about Armistice Day [11 November 1930]

Filed Under: articles Tagged With: 500x500, Armistice Day, early usage of the term “world war”, propaganda as a negative term, Remembrance Day, SourceTrove, year1930

Young Australia: “Carry on our heritage”: Plea for democracy [by Herbert Gepp, 3 September 1938]

2 February 2021 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This article by Herbert Gepp was published in the Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate (Newcastle, NSW), 3 September 1938.] Young Australia “Carry on our heritage” Plea for democracy (By Sir Herbert Gepp) Youth may be defined as elasticity, as … [Read more...] about Young Australia: “Carry on our heritage”: Plea for democracy [by Herbert Gepp, 3 September 1938]

Filed Under: articles Tagged With: Alexis Carrel (1873-1944) (subject), democracy, eugenics, Herbert William Gepp (1877-1954) (author), propaganda as a negative term, Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) (subject), SourceTrove, year1938

Different people: The Australian character: An authoress’s assessment [13 March 1939]

10 May 2012 · Leave a Comment

“Different people.” The Australian character An authoress’s assessment. “Our early writers, like early American writers, made the vast mistake of thinking that Australians are the same sort of people as those who originally came here, merely living in a different … [Read more...] about Different people: The Australian character: An authoress’s assessment [13 March 1939]

Filed Under: articles Tagged With: Australianism, development of Australian culture, Henrietta Drake-Brockman (1901-1968) (subject), propaganda as a negative term, SourceTrove, year1939

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