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Choosing to remember them

The desire to preserve the Anzac tradition comes from below, not from above

25 April 2015

9:00 AM

25 April 2015

9:00 AM

Anzac Day embodies the violence, exploitation, repression, racism, and sexism of Australia’s past and present. Its prominence in our national life and story reflects ignorance, and its militarism is profoundly disturbing. A nationalist mythology, it is irrelevant to the pluralistic democracy of modern Australia.

That’s the essence of allegations from people who, for decades, have denigrated Anzac and advanced a pessimistic view of Australia and its people.

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Ben Wilkie is an historian and academic.

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