by Juliana Byers | Sep 5, 2024 | Australian History, Colonisation & Invasion, Imperial History, Indigenous History, Political History, Referencing, Social History
I Don’t Wanna Hear It! How to Respond Respectfully to Uncomfortable History Have you ever sat down to eat something really delicious, only to have someone start talking loudly about something which suddenly kills your hard-earned appetite? “Shut the hell up!”...
by Juliana Byers | Jul 9, 2024 | Uncategorised
Real Quotes and Fake Attributes I’m a sucker for a good ‘motivational’ quote. If you didn’t know that about me, now you do. I saw this one at Adelaide Airport on my way back from AHA Conference. Initially I thought it was an advertisement,...
by Juliana Byers | May 17, 2024 | Afghanistan, Military History, Modern Warfare, True Crime, War Crime
Author’s Note: This article discusses the deaths of civilians and non-combatants in war. I make a clear distinction between incidents resulting in collateral damage, and those in which civilians/non-combatants are killed as a result of reckless, indifferent or...
by Juliana Byers | May 3, 2024 | ANZAC Day, Australian History, Gallipoli, Military History, Political History, Social History, World War 1
Ah, taxes, one of the only two things they say are certain in this world, the other (of course) being death. So perhaps it is appropriate that it was recently revealed that a bunch of Victorian MPs, thirteen, to be exact, and one federal MP, used taxpayer funds to...
by Juliana Byers | Apr 26, 2024 | ANZAC Day, Australian History, Gallipoli, Memorials, Military History, Passchendaele, Post-1900, The Somme, World War 1
Today is the 25th of April, and the 109th anniversary of the catastrophic failure that was the Gallipoli invasion. Oops! Sorry Twitter-lynch mob, I meant today is the 109th anniversary of the greatest day in Australian history, where we became a nation, baptized in...
