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Anzac Day Media Analysis


"Gallipoli was a bastard of a place," he said. "I never understood what we were fighting for. All I could think of was that I never wanted to go back to the bloody place."
Albert White, aged 100, Brisbane, Sydney Morning Herald, 17 May 2002

On such a national occasion as Anzac Day a newspaper front page might be viewed as not just a microcosm from which to extrapolate a broader understanding of public sentiment but a snap shot of the most prominent values and themes of the moment. This select and elevated status (as well as the corresponding absences) makes for a particularly revealing analysis.
Consequently it is through the comparison and contrast of the two following daily newspaper front pages that the portrayal and role of Anzac day is explored and from which the associated understandings of Australia as a nation are subsequently discussed.
A foreground of mown lawn is interrupted by rows of headstones facing away towards the sea below. In......

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