Media Backgrounders

Media backgrounders provide key details of commemorative events, Australia’s military history and Department of Veterans’ Affairs programs.

Commemorations

Anzac Day (PDF 167KB) (RTF 20KB)
Australian Remembrance Trail along the Western Front (PDF 265KB) (Word 39KB)
Bullecourt Museum (PDF 1.01MB) (Word 45KB)
Anzac Day at Gallipoli (PDF 158KB) (RTF 18KB)
Anzac Day in France (PDF 158KB) (Word 38KB)
Remembrance Day (PDF 326KB) (RTF 27KB)

Australians at War (PDF 298KB) (Word 39KB)
Indigenous Australians at war (PDF 134KB) (Word 256KB)
National Service (PDF 30KB) (Word 32KB)
On the home front (PDF 192KB) (Word 240KB)
Australian Peacekeeping (PDF 529KB) (Word 31KB)

Australians in the First World War (PDF 180KB) (Word 44KB)
Australians who served at Bullecourt (PDF 517KB) (Word 13.5MB)
Battles of Bullecourt (PDF 534KB) (Word 33KB)
Battle of Villers-Bretonneux (PDF 130KB) (Word 40KB)
Gallipoli (PDF 200KB) (RTF 36KB)
Middle East (PDF 205KB) (RTF 35KB)
Stories of Australians at Gallipoli and on the Western Front (PDF 76KB) (RTF 2MB)
Western Front (PDF 147KB) (Word 38KB)

Battle of the Atlantic (PDF 220 KB) (Word 33 KB)
Australians in North Africa in the Second World War (PDF 173KB) (RTF 30KB)
Australia Under Attack (PDF 656KB) (Word 37KB
Battle for Australia Day (PDF 298KB) (RTF 29KB))
Battles for Greece and Crete (PDF 405KB) (RTF 30MB)
Battle of Kokoda (PDF 341KB) (Word 34KB)
Battle of the Beachheads (PDF 406KB) (Word 34KB)
Bomber Command (PDF 148KB) (Word 254KB)
Burma-Thailand Railway (PDF 172KB) (RTF 18KB)
Fall of Singapore (PDF 35KB) (Word 35KB)
Fates of POWs in the Pacific (PDF 34KB) (Word 34KB)
Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels (PDF 633KB) (Word 39KB)
Malayan Campaign (PDF 34KB) (Word 34KB)
Milne Bay (PDF 233KB) (Word 269KB)
Timor-Leste (PDF 108KB) (Word 249KB)