David Smith. Documentary film maker Dr David Smith and his father, searchlight operator Gordon Smith of the 67th AASL, visit RAAF Landing Ground Truscott for the 50th Anniversary of the completion of Australia's secret World War II airbase. Truscott was a crucial departure point for heavy bombers making sorties over South East Asia and critical in the defence of Australia following the bombing of Darwin in 1942.

John Hamilton: John's new book, Price of Valour details the life of Hugo Throssell, Victoria Cross recipient. The book was launched by former Prime Minister John Howard at the Shrine of Remembrance on Thursday 23 August 2012. 

Terry Smith tells the little known story of the Australia Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV). In 1972, 64 Australians, who never numbered more than 30 at any one time, helped to train light infantry battalions of the Cambodian Amy. A total of 13, 6000 officers and men were trained in Phuoc Tuy Province of South Vietnam between January and November 1972.

Patrick Lindsay. Since 2002, Patrick Lindsay has established himself as one of Australia's leading non-fiction authors, having written 17 books. Patrick will explore the Spirit of Kokoda, looking at how it was created on the Kokoda Track in Australia's darkest days in 1942 and why it is still relevant and inspiring Austrailans 70 years on. 

Nigel Buesst. No man better personified the archetypal Australian of the early decades of the last century than Albert Jacka. His heroic feats captured the imagination of a generation. Join director Nigel Buesst for this special screening of his documentary on Jacka, the first Australian Victoria Cross recipient of World War I. Please note: this file only includes audio discussion and does not include the documentary. 

Dr Peter Pederson. Much has been written, particularly in recent years, about the costly attack at Fromelles on 19 July 1916. If some have called it the forgotten battle, an epithet which was never really merited, they can hardly do so now. This talk will analyse various facets of the planning and execution of the attack and set them within the context of the tactical doctrine that guided the operations of the British Expeditionary Force at the time. 

Alasdair McGregor. Arguably best remembered for his photographs of Douglas Mawson and Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expeditions, Frank Hurley was also a renowned war photographer and cine cameraman. He saw service with the AIF from the horrific battles of Flanders in World War I to the Desert Camplaign of North Africa in World War II. 

Join the Shrine's Manager of Exhibitions and Collections, Jean McAuslan, on a specual Curator's Tour of the award winning travelling exhibition, 'Indigenous Australians at War: from the Boer War to the present'. Jean will uncover the individual and family stories of service and sacrifice of the First Australians. 

Jen Hawksley. Join war historian, Jen Hawksley, from the University of Wollongong, to discuss aspects of her research into Australian parents who were institutionalised after losing thier son/s during the First World War and returned soldiers who were treated in hospitals for shell shock and other war-related psychological conditions. Jen will conceptualise an unprecedented national trauma at the microcosm of the individual patients, their families and the doctors who tried to treat a generation permanently scarred by war. 

Peter Rees. By the end of the Great War, forty-five Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over two hundred had been decorated. These were women who left for war on an adventure but were soon confronted with remarkable challenges for which their civilian lives could never have prepared them. Peter Rees takes us into the hospital camps, the wards and the tent surgeries on the edge of some of the most horrific battlefronts of human history.