Colonel David Collins
When you next walk down the Collins Street reflect on the man after whom the street was named.
Black Beasts of War
Sitting unobtrusively astride the front entrance stand two black beasts of war.
US Marines in Melbourne
The close bonds of friendship and cooperation between the United States Marine Corps (USMC) and the Australian Army were forged in the Pacific campaigns of World War 2 and continue […]
INTERFET: Reflections on the 1999 East Timor Crisis
Following the vote in favour of self-determination in 1999 chaos engulfed East Timor. Dozens of buildings burned, thousands of people were displaced from their homes and some were injured or […]
Book review – In All Respects Ready: Australia’s Navy in World War One
In All Respects Ready: Australia’s Navy in World War One by David Stevens.
Book Review – The Good International Citizen
The Good International Citizen: Australian Peacekeeping in Asia, Africa and Europe, 1991-1993. Volume 3 of the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations. by David Horner and […]
Book Review – Remembrance: 100 years, 100 memorials, 100 Australian stories
by Geoff Hocking with Christopher Atkins and Julie Millowick
The First Fateful Shot: Port Phillip Bay, August 1914
Shortly after midday the gunners at Fort Nepean lined up the German merchant steamer – the SS Pfalz – as it bolted towards the heads and fired the first shot […]
