Submitted by Paul Daley on
It’s beyond time that the country began honestly commemorating its past in conflict, for all its complexities, its good and its considerable bad
Rarely is Australia’s penchant for selective historical memory on starker display than on Anzac Day.
And never more so than since Anzac Day 2015, the centenary of the invasion by Australian troops of an obscure finger of the Ottoman empire that has – illogically and never quite explicably – been claimed as this country’s moment of national definition.
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