If you are going to define the birth of a nation by imperial adventures abroad then you must honour and respect those who return damaged
Anzac Day dawn service in Sydney, 2019. Anzac birthers have clung to Australia’s involvement in the first world war – especially Gallipoli – as the birth of the nation.Anzac Day dawn service in Sydney, 2019. Anzac birthers have clung to Australia’s involvement in the first world war – especially Gallipoli – as the birth of the nation.
Go to the royal commission final report and to the hundreds of thousands of pages of other official inquiries compiled over decades into the systemic mistreatment of veterans that successive governments have failed to act upon. It’s all there. Remembrance Day is in less than a month. It is one of the biggest days on Australia’s commemorative calendar, surpassed in terms of official solemnity and nationalism only by Anzac Day .
But Defence – its history and its culture – too often seems to be a world of battlefield heroes and largely forgotten, discharged casualties. Forgotten, if only we’d let them be.
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