The 100-year anniversary of one of Great Britain’s great betrayals is approaching. Professor Stuart Rees explains.

ARMIDALE, NSW - Exhibition - Horse Power: Light Horse in Palestine - to Beersheba and beyond, 29 September 2017 - 11 February 2018

'...it will be news to many that this year’s official commemoration in Israel in October of the 1917 Battle of Beersheba, involving the Israeli and Australian governments, will implicitly bless the contemporary policies of these allies in terms of an alleged divine plan supposedly sealed in the blood of Anzac dead.'

Like many on the Australian Left in the immediate post-war era, including the historians Brian Fitzpatrick and Manning Clark, Evatt was a strong Zionist sympathiser...

Australia has historical obligations to the Palestinians as a consequence of the British Mandate...