Anzac Day stories
The annual ANU Anzac Day broadcast began in 2020 as the onset of Covid led to the suspension of traditional Anzac Day observance across the country. A service to the community by Australia's national university, it was intended to bring communities together at at time the pandemic tore us apart. The broadcasts continue to showcase innovative scholarship into the catastrophe of 1914-18, exploring the way war reaches into and damages the whole social fabric, and posing challenging questions about the nature of Anzac remembrance.
2025 - Anzac Day commemoration
This year, as countless thousands of refugees are uprooted from their homes and communities by armed conflict, we consider one of the greatest humanitarian movements to emerge… » read more
2024 - Red Sails in the Sunset: a Kokoda Veteran Remembers War
This year, as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese prepares for a special Anzac Day service in Papua New Guinea, we invite you to make your own journey along the Kokoda Trail. Join ANU… » read more
2023 - Absent from Anzac
The Story of an Australian Nurse at War On Anzac Day 2023, The Australian National University shared the story of Narrelle Hobbes, reminding us of those who fall outside… » read more
2022 - The Hidden Toll
The Hidden Toll: Survivors of War yet not Peace No one will ever know how many Australians have died of war-related injuries. It could be twice as many as reflected on… » read more
2021 - When the Gunfire Ceased
Bruce Scates in Conversation with Jay Winter, a special presentation from the Menzies Australia Institute at Kings College London, and The Australian National University.… » read more
2020 - Touched by War
In 2020, in the midst of COVID lockdowns, ANZAC Day was unlike any other in living memory. The day was observed with a special online event with Professor Bruce Scates, ANU… » read more
