Kaspar Wowser
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great cartoon today- you’ll probably get lots of complaints from RSL but an acurate protrayal of why young Aussies died 100 years ago- monarchs of UK, Germany & Russia were all first cousins who fell out after death of Queen Victoria- big family squabble killed hundreds of thousands
Though I’m 68 and have had a lifetime of exposure to numerous rehashes of WW1 I could never work out what it was all about, finally deciding it was nothing but a bar-room brawl on a grand political scale. Kaspar’s cartoon puts a bit of structure to it, but, it still comes across as a bar-room brawl on a grand political scale. Lest We Forget!
Yes, certainly a lot more accurate than ‘we did it to protect democracy’.
“The $Holy Crusades”
Keating was right. The Kokoda Track has a far better resonance for Australia. Poorly trained, poorly equipped and supported soldiers who fought heroically against overwhelming odds in defence of their country. Read “a Bastard of a Place.” But the ANZAC juggernaut rolls on..