Outrage will prevent a windfarm over the Bullecourt dead – but it's missing elsewhere | Paul Daley

Where is the anger at Indigenous remains in museums after modern infrastructure disturbed traditional burial sites?

It is easy to find distinct order in the chiseled landscape of commemoration when you visit the world war one battlefields of the European western front.

Winding your way down bucolic country laneways or taking highways across the verdant expanses for which millions died, you’ll see hundreds of cemeteries with their blonde statuary, precise lawns and tended shrubs. They bring military structure to remembering.

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