Vian @ 33:
I was in Melbourne a few hours later and got caught on the wrong
side of what I believe was Santa marching down Bourke street. For
some reason they played the Austin Powers theme song.
I don't know if this was a usual thing, but we studied WWI in
primary school, and not in high school. So as you can imagine I've
not studied it in great detail. But I doubt anyone could get
through any education in Australia - and the accompanying twelve or
so ANZAC days - without the idea that Gallipoli was a clusterfuck,
and thus the rest of it could hardly have been much better.
and to 11 and 13:
The RSL tried to ask the guy who burnt the Australian flag at the
Cronulla riots to march with them this year (he apologised), but
apparently someone complained bitterly. I've had a hunt around, but
I originally heard about it in Andrew Bolt's column
(blood-pressure-rising-ly right-wing in a conservative tabloid) and
I can't bear to read Bolt again to find out if he actually did. The
point of which sentence was that young people do indeed march,
sometimes even people who might burn flags at riots.
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