A series of papers given by the various speakers at the Australian Human Rights Commission’s War and Peace: The Anzac spirit and human rights 2014 seminar.

In April 1965, on the fiftieth anniversary of the landing at Gallipoli, Ken Inglis travelled to Anzac Cove with a boatload of diggers making a pilgrimage to the scene of Australia’s best-known battle. As they travelled from Australia to Turkey via Egypt and Greece, he wrote seven articles for the Canberra Times, which are reproduced...

This report argues that successive Australian governments have failed to define an effective national defence strategy. Executive summaryAustralia’s inability to clearly and succinctly define its defence strategy is a perennial failing that will have serious policy and operational consequences if not addressed. Australia’s recent defence white papers are part of the problem: they lack coherence...

The objective of this paper is to review the scholarly literature to ascertain how leadership can play its part in strengthening support for inclusion in military organisations. The review reaches four related conclusions. Firstly, support for inclusion is simply one of a number of similar ethical attitudes/values that are amenable to leadership influence, so there...

This report provides an update of the Australian Defence Force Academy's progress in implementing the recommendations from the Review into the Treatment of Women at ADFA.