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The Middle Kingdom extends its reach

FORMER military chief Peter Cosgrove referred to China, in the recent Boyer lectures, as the Middle Kingdom - a title often used for the country by English-speaking politicians and businesspeople, frequently in an awed tone of reverence. Both this term, which is a translation of Zhongguo, the name China's rulers have used for the country for about a century, and the even more ubiquitous...

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Cold War vote a lesson in value of democracy

THE ABC BOYER LECTURES: The government of the day, which is accountable to the people, is best left to make our laws, writes Peter Cosgrove

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Leaders know dream teams have an ethos

THE ABC BOYER LECTURES: The chiefs of the corporate world can learn about leadership from the experience of the military, writes Peter Cosgrove

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Canberra remembers Australia's war dead

The nation's war dead call loudest from Canberra's Australian War Memorial, where their names line the walls, former defence chief Peter Cosgrove says.

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Canberra remembers Australia's war dead

The nation's war dead call loudest from Canberra's Australian War Memorial, where their names line the walls, former defence chief Peter Cosgrove says.

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Tributes for nation's fallen

... ADF said he was hit in a leg and his wounds were not life threatening.Former Defence Force chief Peter Cosgrove said every name on the Roll of Honour and in the memorial's remembrance book represented a husband, father, son or brother taken - a wife, mother, daughter or sister gone.''Their lives were precious, to their families, to Australia and above all, to those who gave them,''...

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Nations around world honor war dead

... is nothing glorious about war. Those called upon to fight know that better than anyone," Gen. Peter Cosgrove, chairman of the Council of the Australian War Memorial, said Wednesday. "But they also know that, when all else fails, it is necessary to fight against the tyrannies that threaten liberty. That cause transcends the ages, and it is a noble one."In Britain, ceremonies will be...

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How Australia could have won the Vietnam War

In his opening Boyer Lecture, Peter Cosgrove considers what should determine our national security