Alan Tudge is dead wrong. Anzac should be contested – as it always has been | Paul Daley

Submitted by Paul Daley on Tue, 26/10/2021 - 4:01pm

He has been banging on with these dreary, condescending, cliched cultural themes, each instalment a little more ridiculous

Ever since the warmonger Billy Hughes urged Australian men to go and “fight for White Australia in France” during the first world war, Australian politicians have been banging the drum on the supposed sanctity of Anzac Day.

All the while they’ve attempted to enshrine 25 April in cultural incontestability with the veneer of ecclesiastical language – “sacrifice” and “spirit” and “the fallen” (but never the eviscerated, drowned or incinerated “dead”) – they’ve attached to it.