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Leading article Australia

We are not Anzacs in this crisis

24 April 2020

11:00 PM

24 April 2020

11:00 PM

One hundred and five years ago today, our boys stormed the barren shores of Anzac Cove. For all the Victoria Crosses awarded for bravery in that ill-fated campaign, every man leaping from the boats that first Anzac Day to scale those steep, rocky Gallipoli cliffs, under withering Turkish fire, was brave in a way that most of us who have never known world war or even economic recession could ever understand.

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