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Kokoda in perspective.(Jonathan King works )
JONATHAN KING is a writer and an enthusiast; I always associate his name with the imaginative "Tall Ships" adventure of Australia's Bicentennial. n the March 2006 issue of Mufti (the Victorian RSL's journal) he writes an interesting article which compares Australia's national image of Gallipoli with its folk-memory of the Somme.
His argument (not, I hope, unfairly truncated here) is that Australian memory makes too much of Anzac, and makes too little of the later fighting on the Western Front in Europe; in short, that Gallipoli receives a good deal of limelight that should be shining on the Somme. (It should be stressed that King does not denigrate Gallipoli, nor ...
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- Call to regulate PNGs Kokoda Track as second Australian dies.
- News wire article from: PAC - Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association April 24, 2009 700+ words
...A second Australian has died on the Kokoda Track in the lead-up to tomorrow's Anzac...trek organised for Anzac Day. The 96km Kokoda Track, a historic trek following the path...million-dollar trekking industry the Kokoda Track has spawned. Sandy Hollway, the Rudd...
- Injured 'at risk' on Kokoda Track.
- News wire article from: Bulletin Wire May 4, 2009 700+ words
...Gridneff Australian trekkers injured on the Kokoda Track face added danger because of cost...Bartlett, a former director of the Kokoda Track Authority, said emergency responses...aged under 40 died trekking along the Kokoda Track in the lead-up to this year's Anzac...
- NSW man dies walking Kokoda Track.
- News wire article from: Bulletin Wire April 23, 2009 700+ words
...Australian to die while walking the Kokoda Track in a week. The Department of Foreign...died yesterday ... while walking the Kokoda Track," a DFAT spokesman told AAP on Thursday...and died while walking the track. The Kokoda Track, an historic trek following the path...
- Landowners shut down Kokoda Track.
- News wire article from: Bulletin Wire May 8, 2009 700+ words
...Guinea landowners have shut down the Kokoda Track over a raft of complaints, in particular...says they are not happy with the new Kokoda Track Authority (KTA) board and are demanding...Koiari landowners briefly shut down the Kokoda Track during protests against the PNG and...
- PAPUA NEW GUINEA LANDOWNERS SHUT DOWN KOKODA TRACK.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News May 8, 2009 700+ words
...Guinea landowners have shut down the Kokoda Track over a raft of complaints, in particular...says they are not happy with the new Kokoda Track Authority (KTA) board and are demanding...Koiari landowners briefly shut down the Kokoda Track during protests against the PNG and...
- Kokoda Track is 'hard exercise': PM.
- News wire article from: PAC - Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association April 30, 2009 700+ words
...minister has warned of the difficulty walking the famous Kokoda Track, following the deaths of two Australians earlier this month...paid tribute to the fuzzy wuzzy angels who worked on the Kokoda Track in World War II, and saved the lives of many Australians...
- Kokoda Track memorial mark trek death.
- News wire article from: Bulletin Wire June 21, 2006 700+ words
...Byline: Lloyd Jones A simple memorial has been erected on the Kokoda Track to mark the death of an Australian trekker who wanted to...their brother had a passion for the wartime history of the Kokoda Track, where in 1942 Australian troops stopped the Japanese reaching...
- Mystery surrounds Kokoda Track airman.
- News wire article from: Bulletin Wire August 29, 2008 700+ words
...The Australian Defence Force is making plans to visit the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea to confirm what are believed to be the...she said. Trekkers were warned not to stray off the Kokoda Track as unexploded ordinance from the war still lies in the area...
- Threats to shut Kokoda Track over funds.
- News wire article from: Bulletin Wire December 19, 2006 700+ words
...could be stopped from walking Papua New Guinea's punishing Kokoda Track next year if disgruntled landowners carry out a threat to...unhappy that the PNG government is not helping to fund the Kokoda Track Authority (KTA), established three years ago to promote...
- PNG forum to discuss Kokoda Track: Smith.
- News wire article from: Bulletin Wire June 8, 2009 700+ words
The Kokoda Track and climate change will be on the agenda at a ministerial forum with...secretaries will attend. Key bilateral issues for discussion include Kokoda Track access, climate change and Australia's development assistance to...
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