About Despatches From Gallipoli
In order to understand their special place in the world, Australians should have the opportunity to know their nationally significant heritage places, stories, anniversaries and people.
To help achieve this, the Australian Government developed new National Heritage legislation, which came into effect on 1 January 2004. This focuses on identifying and protecting those places that are nationally important to all Australians.
In December 2003 the Prime Minister of Australia, the Hon John Howard MP, launched the new National Heritage system and its underlying funding, the Distinctively Australian program.
On the day the Prime Minister remarked in his speech, "the Anzac experience at Gallipoli ... is recognised as the most defining event in Australia's history that has provided ... so much of the inspiration for our sense of independence, our sense of our place as a nation in the world, of our separate identity from others—those qualities that we like to believe lie at the heart of the Australian spirit and the Australian character."
He also said "that we maintain those records which are part of our heritage. In recognition of this, I announce that the Government will provide funding for the digital copying and recording of the Gallipoli correspondence of the famous war correspondent C.E.W. Bean and his fellow reporters from the Gallipoli campaign. These documents will thus become available on the Internet and will include some 200 newspaper articles, images and interpretive pieces. And I'd like to thank the C.E.W. Bean Foundation, which has been involved in supporting this very important project".
Acknowledgements
This website is the work of the National Library of Australia and the C.E.W. Bean Foundation, and has been funded by the Distinctively Australian program administered by the Department of Environment and Heritage.
The following people contributed to the production of this website:
Writers |
- Jacqui Rees - Libby Bright |
Content Advice |
- Dr Peter Cochrane - Dr Michael McKernan |
Editor |
- Leora Kirwan |
Designer |
- Noel Wendtman |
Development |
- Gunther Glesti - Lindsay Davidson - Alexander Johannesen - Matthew Hodgson |
Project Management |
- Nicola Mackay-Sim - Stephanie Green - Susan Hall |
With many thanks to the Cataloguing team and Digitisation team at the National Library of Australia, and the Australian War Memorial for their digitisation and research support for this project, particularly in providing access to the C.E.W. Bean journal, and other items from their collection.



