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Shell-Shocked: Australia After Armistice, an exhibition at the National Archives of Australia, has been opened by the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd.
The exhibition contains a selection of war records about the end of World War I, and how the Australian community dealt with the war’s after-effects.
Rudd mused on “what it is about ANZAC … which so [...]
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This is the text of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s Commemorative Address at the Remembrance Day Service, held at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
Fellow Australians, friends of Australia, Veterans of Australia:
90 years ago today, the great guns fell silent.
After fours years of bloodshed, the battlefields were silent.
Great empires had been broken.
Millions, millions lay dead.
Among them, [...]
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