Vol. 7 Issue 2. 2018
The Australian Emergency Services Magazine is a community educational resource dedicated to the recognition and promotion of emergency service personnel, and the awareness of safety measures, for the community, family and individual. We aim to provide relevant and up to date information and advancements within each of the emergency response sectors and first responders.
The Australian Emergency Services Magazine is a community educational resource dedicated to the recognition and promotion of emergency service personnel, and the awareness of safety measures, for the community, family and individual. We aim to provide relevant and up to date information and advancements within each of the emergency response sectors and first responders.
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In Australian’s Hearts<br />
shores.<br />
Newspaper editors, politicians and<br />
leaders of the church readily proclaimed<br />
the charge up the cliffs into Turkish fire<br />
to be Australia’s “baptism of fire” and<br />
“the birth of the nation”.<br />
The more obvious occasion for<br />
Australia’s national birth — the peaceful<br />
act of federation on January 1, 1901 –<br />
lacked the bloody appeal of Gallipoli.<br />
The Australian nation was created<br />
during the age of “New Imperialism”,<br />
when the empires of Europe were<br />
engaged in furious competition for<br />
colonial outposts and the resources and<br />
markets they would bring.<br />
It was a contest that led in 1914 to<br />
the outbreak of the first world war.<br />
According to the chest-beating<br />
nationalism that accompanied and<br />
justified this imperial jostling, war was<br />
the truest test of the character of men<br />
and nations.<br />
Australians felt especially keenly their<br />
lack of bloody initiation (the frontier<br />
wars with Aboriginal peoples did not<br />
count), given our penal past. A good<br />
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