Between 1980 and 2007 he was an historian and curator at the Australian War Memorial, including as head of the Historical Research Section and Principal Historian from 1987.
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He was Head of the Centre for Historical Research at the National Museum of Australia from 2007–13.
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He was black, he was a White man, and a dinkum Ausie': race and empire in revisiting the Anzac legend, in Santanu Das, (ed.), Race, Empire and First World War Writing, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011
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He has recently been a major participant in a public debate regarding the "Battle for Australia", contesting opinions that events in Darwin in 1942 during the Second World War represented Japan's intention to invade Australia.
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