by Juliana Byers | Apr 14, 2024 | Australian History, Military History, Modern Warfare, True Crime, War Crime
Australia’s Uncomfortable Relationship With Our Military History Author’s Note: Since this post was published, Ben Roberts-Smith VC has appealed the findings against him. Juliana Byers16 June 2023 Dear Reader: This post was written for an undergraduate...
by Juliana Byers | Apr 14, 2024 | Australian History, Ballarat, Gold Rush, Military History, Political History, Pre-1900, Social History, The Eureka Stockade
Following on from my recent podcast, I want to talk a little more about why I think calling the Battle of the Eureka Stockade a rebellion is a misnomer. In the twenty-first century, particularly in countries with generally robust democracies (Australia among them),...
by Juliana Byers | Apr 14, 2024 | Australian History, Military History, Passchendaele, Post-1900, Travel, World War 1
…and then a shell burst slick upon the duckboards: so I fell into the bottomless mud and lost the light… – Siegfried Sassoon, “Memorial Tablet” (1918)1 In 2018, I realised a long-term dream of mine to visit Ireland. I’d been saving for years to go and had a wonderful...
by Juliana Byers | Apr 14, 2024 | Australian History, Conspiracy Theories, Political History, Post-1900, Social History, Vanishings & Missing Persons
“Look, Tony, what are the odds of a Prime Minister drowning or being taken by a shark?” – Harold Holt, to his press secretary Tony Eggelton, in 1967. When a young Harold Holt was seventeen, he decided that, one day, he would be the Prime Minister. At first glance,...
by Juliana Byers | Apr 14, 2024 | Australian History, Indigenous Australia, Indigenous History, Military History, Non-Fiction, Pre-1900, Recommended Viewing, The Australian Wars
In 2022, SBS released a fantastic documentary entitled “The Australian Wars” which told the story of Indigenous resistance to the British invasion of their land from 1788. It was a significant work, as for more than 200 years than standard narrative has been that one...
