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Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth delivers a speech at the US cemetery to commemorate the 82nd anniversary of the D-Day landings.

Hegseth uses D-Day memorial to rail against ‘invasion’ of Europe by migrants

The issue of European immigration has been a preoccupation of the Trump administration, with Vice President JD Vance also weighing in on the topic.

  • Michael Koziol

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Location, location: Why tiny island strongholds are so prized

The Indian and Pacific oceans cover roughly half the globe and are dotted with strategically valuable islands. Who has what where – and when can it get controversial?

  • Angus Holland
Victoria Barracks on St Kilda Road

Parks, schools and homes: Council’s plan to redevelop Victoria Barracks

Lord Mayor Nick Reece says Melbourne will “never live it down” if the federal government’s sale of the historic military site does not benefit the community.

  • Cara Waters
NSW Premier Chris Minns read a poem during the service.

‘War never solves anything’: Veterans honoured across Australia on Anzac Day

As dusk draws near, 111 years after Gallipoli, pubs are swelling with camaraderie and two-up following dawn services and marches to honour those who served and died for their country.

  • Patrick Begley, Jack Gramenz and Sally Rawsthorne
The Anzac Day march from Elizabeth Street to Hyde Park in Sydney.
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Anzac Day 2026 – in pictures

Australia pauses to remember those lost to war.

Fred Whittaker, a 100-year-old WWII veteran, is featured in this year’s Archibald.

Meet Fred, the Sydney Harbour Bridge-loving, Trump-hating 100-year-old veteran

Fred Whitaker served in the Pacific in World War II. He loves IPA beer and the bridge. Just don’t ask him about the US president.

  • Anthony Segaert
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Gordon Whitlam spent decades trying to overturn a court-martial after he was wrongly convicted of theft while in Egypt in 1915-16.

The lieutenant, the liar and the leather-bound file: Inside the 30-year fight to clear Gordon Whitlam

The prime minister’s uncle was wrongly court-martialled as a young officer in World War I. He spent decades trying to clear his name.

  • Tony Wright
Lawrence Saywell.

‘He died at the moment the war ended’: The young Australian who helped the Czech partisans

Lawrence Saywell survived Nazi prison camps and joined up with Czech freedom fighters only to cruelly lose his life the day Germany surrendered.

  • David Crowe
Bliss Jensen in the Australian War Memorial’s Peacekeeping Gallery.

SBS documentary goes inside the divisive Australian War Memorial renovation

The museum’s upgrade provides space to “recognise the loss, and the ongoing impacts” of war on veterans.

  • Bridget McManus
The war in Iran has pushed petrol prices to record highs.

Nightmarish decisions lie ahead on fuel rationing, but better to go hard early

Wartime-style rationing is not on the table, but governments face only difficult decisions when it comes to controlling demand for liquid fuel.

  • Allan Fels