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'It's not black and white': a new look at Australia's modern wars
The four-part SBS documentary follows a $500 million Australian War Memorial project, highlighting veterans’ experiences and evolving narratives for modern and migrant Australians.
- Canberra filmmaker Serge Ou explores the Australian War Memorial's mission in his four-part documentary New Anzac, premiering on SBS on April 10, examining the $500 million expansion project at the top of Anzac Parade.
- Construction on this massive project has been unfolding at the site for the past six years, with Ou aiming to capture how the memorial adapts its narrative to represent modern veterans alongside traditional accounts of the World Wars.
- Australia has 100,000 contemporary veterans from the past 40-odd years, and Ou argues these individuals require space that accurately represents their experience, rather than just the traditional image of marchers on Anzac Day.
- Peacekeepers receive new prominence in the expanded memorial, a focus Ou finds personally significant, noting service members—including his mother who served with the United Nations in Rwanda—often feel under-represented despite dangerous deployments.
- Migrants from conflict-affected areas like Afghanistan, Iraq, and Timor find resonance in the memorial's stories, as Ou suggests these layers of storytelling provide a richer understanding of conflict persisting for nearly 30 years.
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