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The wars & local soldiers, 2000

63 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 4

Diplômes d'honneur français pour l'Anzac Day

Le Courrier Australien · Monday 1 May 2000 · page 21

Dans toutes les grandes villes australiennes, les anciens comba tants et représentants des missions diplomatiques françaises on pris part le 25 avril aux cérémonies de commémoration de l'Anza Day…

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Retour d'une peinture en France pour l'Anzac Day

Le Courrier Australien · Monday 1 May 2000 · page 7

Plusieurs cérémonies commémorant l'Anzac Day se sont déroulées le 29 avrildans le Nord de la France, notamment dans les villages de Villers-Bretonneux, Bullecourt et Bapaume, où les troupes australiennes s'étaient distinguées au cours de la Première Guerre mondiale, A Bapaume, la cérémonie a pris une signification particulière,…

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The Soldier’s Return Melvyn Bragg

Tharunka · Tuesday 2 May 2000 · page 41

The Soldier’s Return Melvyn Bragg Hodde'[?] and…

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"Lest we forget Anzac biscuits"

The Chaser · Wednesday 3 May 2000 · page 4

TOWNSVILLE. Monday: The increasing untashionableness of Anzac biscuits has left their manufacturers highly concerned that…

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mediacritic A chaser to the regular media. Anzac tragedies

The Chaser · Wednesday 3 May 2000 · page 14

Great national events are all too often the occasion of prodigiously bad writing in the press, so Mediacritic was up at the crack of…

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Howard wrongly praised over war crimes law

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 5 May 2000 · page 8

ISRAEL’S Prime Minister Ehud Barak was embarrassed by a statement in a congratulatory letter he is supposed to have written which wrongly praises Prime Minister John Howard…

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NESWA nog ieder jaar trouw op ANZAC Day door Engelien Reitsma en Wabe Roskam

Dutch Weekly · Monday 8 May 2000 · page 21

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Bondi protestor promises “protracted war”

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 12 May 2000 · page 6

LENNY Kovner was one of a number of protestors dragged screaming from Bondi Beach during a demonstration against the construction of the controversial Olympic beach volleyball…

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Cosgrove salutes Jewish soldiers

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 12 May 2000 · page 31

ABOUT 1000 people came together at the Great Synagogue last week to remember those who died fighting tyranny. The NSW Association of…

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Scouts mark Anzac Day

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 19 May 2000 · page 23

Leaders and members of the 3rd Rose Bay Judean Scouts and the 1st East Roseville Scouts joined the 200 Jewish veterans who marched along Elizabeth Street to the Great Synagogue to commemorate Anzac Day. Organised by the NSW Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women, the service was addressed by Major-General Peter Cosgrove…

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Spielberg at war

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 19 May 2000 · page 2

A FILM-MAKER has declared war on director Steven Spielberg, DreamWorks SKG and Universal Pictures, accusing them of stealing…

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Young adults discuss war criminals

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 26 May 2000 · page 23

YOUNG Jewish adults came together for a Yom Hashoah function which included a discussion on Nazi war criminals in Australia. Organised in conjunction with Aish and…

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Hezbollah moves in as Lebanese soldiers flee

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 26 May 2000 · page 15

JERUSALEM: A central pillar of Israel’s strategic defence policy in Southern Lebanon collapsed this week with the desertion of hundreds of members of the South Lebanese Army’s Shi’ite…

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The War Zone

Tharunka · Tuesday 30 May 2000 · page 37

[?] Tim Roth Writ.: Alexander Stuart Star.: Ray Winstone, Tilda Sainton. Kale Ashfield, Lara Belmont, Freddie Cunliffe. The War Zone is a film made in the shock-you-to, the-core tradition. After spending a short while…

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Eye on Africa Engaged couple eschew diamond in favour of direct contribution to Angolan war

The Chaser · Wednesday 31 May 2000 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Sydney couple John Williams and Denise Cox have decided to shun the traditional purchase of a diamond…

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Unearthing war crimes

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 2 June 2000 · page 10

UNEARTHING Evil is the title of a program on war crimes, which screens on Quantum this week. The program explores the work of Australian…

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For some, the war still isn't over VIEWPOINT

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 2 June 2000 · page 21

THE departure from Lebanon was a carefully orchestrated debacle. There was a national consensus to withdraw, but not with our tails between our legs…

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War memories

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 9 June 2000 · page 2

AN Israeli director has been accepted for the Cannes Film Festival for the second consecutive year. Amos Gitai, who was the first Israeli…

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The greatness of Reb Zalman The tumultuous events of Gimmel Tammuz (the 1994 passing of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe), have understandably overshadowed an important yahrtzeit in the annals of post-war Chabad with a strong Australian connection

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 30 June 2000 · page 33

THERE were three brothers-in-law, held in highest respect by Chasidim, whose hitkashrut (spiritual connection) to the Rebbe was…

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Australian’s experiences at Belsen Title: Letters from Belsen 1945: An Australian Nurse’s Experiences with the Survivors of War Publisher: Allen & Unwin, 240 pp, $29.95

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 7 July 2000 · page 36

THE voices of those who were involved in the liberation of the concentration camps at the end of World War II are rarely heard. Technically, Australian Chief…

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