The nation’s right to sacrifice its young will again be endorsed; nationalism and religion fervently conflated. 

But who will bother to ask why these keen young volunteers, off to save the Home Country from the Hun, found themselves clambering ashore on a Turkish beach?

Or to examine how, through posturing and deception, leaders in England and Australia alike ensured the carnage would not be averted? 

Or to wonder whether this young nation’s identity was indeed then formed in ways we would rather not admit – but have continued to enact: as a loyal client state that urges and follows its patrons into war.

Quentin Dignam

Tamworth