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Stand by for speeches conflating the Australian experience at Gallipoli with the mitigation of a health and economic threat
Our politicians have been insisting this Anzac Day will be “unlike any other”.
Yes, isolation will prevent most from attending traditional services. Commemoration, as with so much else today, will be largely virtual – a matter of mind over place, imagination over reality.
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Where are the memorials to the dead of the last big pandemic, to those who saved so many and died in the process?
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