It’s beyond time that the country began honestly commemorating its past in conflict,for all its complexities, its satisfactory and its considerable badRarely is Australia’s penchant (a tendency, partiality, or preference) for selective historical memory on starker display than on Anzac Day.
And never more so than since Anzac Day 2015, and the centenary of the invasion by Australian troops of an obscure finger of the Ottoman empire that has – illogically and never fairly explicably – been claimed as this country’s moment of national definition.
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Source: theguardian.com