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BOOK REVIEW

Kate Blackmore, The Dark Pocket of Time: War, Medicine and the Australian State, 1914–1935, Lythrum Press, Adelaide, 2008. pp. vii + 276. $39.95 paper.

Histories of the 'repatriation' of Australian soldiers after World War I have stressed the comparative generosity of the Commonwealth Government's welfare programmes. In some cases these histories are paeans to Australian welfare history. In The Cost of War: Australians Return (Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1996) Stephen Garton has more recently emphasised discourses of Australian blood sacrifice and nationhood, the adversarial relationship between ex-soldiers and the Repatriation Department and the significance of gender divisions. At the same time Garton has maintained that the smaller size of the Australian war pension, when compared to other combatant nations, derived from the lack of emphasis on rank and class in the Australian system.

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