Submitted by Paul Daley on
Australia still clings to 1788 and Anzac at the expense of too much else
There are just seven months to go before the profligate commemorative folly that has been Anzac 100 comes to an end.
Submitted by Paul Daley on
No other country, not even the UK or Germany, has spent as much to commemorate the first world war as Australia
Four years into this country’s over-the-top festival of remembrance for the centenary of the first world war, Australia has passed the point of peak commemoration.
Submitted by Paul Daley on
The Australian republic ought not be so divorced from the cry out of Uluru last May for an Indigenous voice to parliament and truth-telling
Most of us old enough to vote will remember where we were when our republic, with Malcolm Turnbull as helmsman, burbled down a whirlpool of acrimony and division to the rock bottom of public consciousness for almost a generation.