And here's the ABC's Jonathan Green doing his usual sneering pseudo intellectual putdown. A disgrace.
And why would we be surprised when the Anzac centenary becomes little more than a carnival of jingoistic schmaltz and corporate opportunism?…
It works for politics, too. What could be more obvious than turning a lavishly promoted sense of a militarised, masculine Australian ideal to the quiet service of a political class held in something close to open contempt by most modern-day ordinary Australians?… Gallipoli, then as now, was as much a place of deadly, noble sacrifice, as it was a crock of shit.