Alexandra 🇺🇦

PhD-er @historyANU (Kokoda, Anzac, memory, politics of commemoration, war graves); Lawyer; Singer; Occasional Dilettante. Co-author ‘Anzac Journeys’.

[Alexandra 🇺🇦 @SashinkaMac]

@LishayLM 💛💛💛

[Alexandra 🇺🇦 @SashinkaMac]

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#BringThemAllHomeNow48
#HostageSquare
#AllTogether
#UntilTheLastHostage
#BringThemHomeNow

[australian kitsch 🦘 @OzKitsch]

David Stratton's infamous review of The Castle (1997). He later admitted: "I obviously completely misunderstood it ... I have watched it a few times since, and I now think it’s very funny." #davidstratton

[Alexandra 🇺🇦 @SashinkaMac]

Fantastic @historyANU student presentations today at Essex Farm @CWGC cemetery (once a casualty clearing station);then to Huts & Hill 60 cemeteries for a considered & thoughtful discussion on McCrae's #InFlanndersField 🌸; with a pause at Poperinge Execution Post #anuhistorytour

[Alexandra 🇺🇦 @SashinkaMac]

Busy day today on the #anuhistorytour in beautiful Belgium; 🌳🌾 visiting Ramparts,Tyne Cot,Buttes & Toronto @CWGC cemeteries; Langemark German Cemetery; then topping-off the day with our very own Q&A session with our generous colleagues from @IFFmuseum ⛪️
#OurANU @historyANU

[Alexandra 🇺🇦 @SashinkaMac]

@fbongiornoanu Classic!! 🎶

[Alexandra 🇺🇦 @SashinkaMac]

@Joshua_Black97 @AustHistAssoc @TheAusInstitute Wow, Josh!! Congrats! 🙌🙌🥳🥳🥳👏👏👏

[Iuliia Mendel @IuliiaMendel]

Imagine, in 1933 there was an American journalist who wrote a story denying artificial hunger organized by Stalin in Ukraine )later, 4 million people died of it. He even did not go to Ukraine to check the information, just published what Stalin's propaganda offered him. He got Pulitzer prize for it that has never been withdrawn. It is very encouraging for any propagandist.
And there was another journalist, a British one, that visited Ukraine despite the ban and saw the truth with his eyes. It is because of his story the truth was revealed and the genocide stopped. It was super hard to publish this story, everyone was against it. Watch it in the "Mr.Jones."
Truly, the road to heaven feels like hell and the road to hell is heaven...

[Frank Bongiorno @fbongiornoanu]

A man who, in just a little over a minute, brought more smiles than most professional entertainers manage in a lifetime. May his eternity be filled with Peking Duck and Beef with Blackbean Sauce #SucculentChineseMeal

[Alexandra 🇺🇦 @SashinkaMac]

🙌 Thrilled to be a part of this delightful #OralHistory panel (together with @SchoepfChris, Mary-Ellen Ryan & @rosa_v_campbell) at this year's @AustHistAssoc conference 🗣🎙🔉 #OzHA2024 #AHA2024

[Bobbie @bo66ie29]

This beautiful remastered footage was captured by an off duty policeman on 8th May 1945 after Churchill officially declared Victory in Europe. Flags are strung between terraces during the street celebrations in Gateshead. 🇬🇧 #VEDay

[Trupla PNG @truplapng]

Kokoda trekking companies under scrutiny: ON the eve of the arrival of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to Port Moresby tomorrow, in time for the ANZAC Day commemoration, the issue of tour operators has come into spotlight yet again.

The post… https://t.co/I5wTwTTcBe

[Stephen Dziedzic @stephendziedzic]

Story: Anthony Albanese expected to visit PNG and walk part of the Kokoda Track to mark Anzac Day. James Marape likely to join him. China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi also expected to visit Port Moresby that same week https://t.co/CgFrkKRXXX

[Trupla PNG @truplapng]

Bitapaka War Cemetery ready for ANZAC day commemorations: THE Bitapaka Memorial and War Cemetery in Kokopo is expected to recieve hundreds of Australians and New Zealanders for the ANZAC day commemorations this Thursday, April, 25, 2024.

The post… https://t.co/lPk8GHVU96

[Anthony Albanese @AlboMP]

Courage. Endurance. Mateship. Sacrifice.

Words that adorn the Memorial at Isurava on the Kokoda Track where I was honoured to commemorate Anzac Day at a moving ceremony, together with PNG Prime Minister James Marape.

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

Other work by the Ladybird artists.
‘April’ 1958
The neighbours’ garden
Artist: Ronald Lampitt

[Karl James @KarlJames_1945]

Missing Royal Australian Air Force World War II bomber and crew discovered in underwater wreck in Papua New Guinea https://t.co/3CiExUVxTW

[Alexandra 🇺🇦 @SashinkaMac]

@JessUrwin95 🙌🙌🙌 Congrats @JessUrwin95. Look forward to reading this! 🤓

[Aust War Memorial @AWMemorial]

Today we remember Lance Sergeant Abraham Bezalel Beth-Halevy, who was killed 80 years ago during the Second World War. He was 30 years old.

Learn more: https://t.co/iVpD3qxFR5

Image: Courtesy of the Virtual War Memorial