A time to reflect, a tokenistic tradition, or a welcome day off work — young people tell us what they really think of Anzac Day.
A time to reflect, a tokenistic tradition, or a welcome day off work — young Australians say Anzac Day represents something different for each of them.
More than a century on from World War I, the day remains steeped in custom and symbolism. But that doesn't resonate with everyone.'It erases our history'She said she had mixed feelings about Anzac Day because Indigenous experiences were mostly excluded or forgotten. "World War I is considered by a lot of people to be the first war that Australia was involved in," she said.
"For me, that erases the history of the conflict that my old people had between themselves and the European settlers — the Frontier War. "More knowledge needs to be spread [about] Aboriginal people's struggle and the sacrifice that they made fighting just as the Anzacs did — fighting for their families, for their culture, for their mob.""Those blackfellas, they don't get that commemoration as much as the other Anzacs, because often they enlisted under false names," she said.
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