Submitted by Paul Daley on
Did the expensive project just get the rubber stamp because of the magic Anzac cloak?
A few years ago the Australian historian and novelist Peter Cochrane wrote: “Drape ‘Anzac’ over an argument and, like a magic cloak, the argument is sacrosanct.”
And so it is, apparently, with the decision to spend $498m on an upgrade of the Australian War Memorial, Australia’s secular shrine for the worship of all things Anzac.
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But that is the political power and, perhaps, the cultural potency of Anzac in 2018 Australia
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