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Framed by its beginnings as the country's most notorious penal settlement, Port Arthur is also a place marked by paradox - where a beautiful natural landscape rapidly became inscribed with human violence and suffering, where community life would be overtaken by commercial imperatives, and where a rich and difficult history would often be reduced to a series of clichés.

In depictions of Australians in the Great War – the uniform has become inextricably linked into our perception of the digger and war itself. The heavy wool jackets, slouch hat and emu plumes.

.The First World War led to the implosion of the old order in Europe and transformed politics around the world with the creation of The League of Nations. It also profoundly altered Australian society. This program examines life on the Australian home front across one year - 1917.