Carolyn Holbrook is associate professor in history at Deakin University. She recently published with James Walter a history of post-WW2 policy-making in Australia, Australia Fair?: Democracy, Bureaucracy and the Making of Modern Australia, as well as two co-edited books, Challenging Anzac: Stories that Don’t Fit the Legend and Gold Standard?: Remembering the Hawke Government. Carolyn is the Director of the Australian Health & History digital archive.
As Australia seeks to bolster its defence forces in an increasingly volatile world, what do service personnel who challenged militarism and the Anzac legend have to teach us? Mia Martin…
