The Attack on Anzac Day

I t was inevitable that Anzac Day would eventually become subject to the same pressures that assail Australia Day annually. In the 2010s, the attack was spearheaded by Yassmin Abdel-Magied, who first conflated the remembrance of Great War sacrifice with the suffering of Palestinians and other Muslims worldwide. For this she was hounded from the country and fled to safer territory—London.

Supposedly the heart of the postcolonial legacy she spends so much time criticising, today’s London is no longer recognisably British. This is the future her ilk want for all of us, for as she recently declared, she was merely “ahead of her time”. Against this future, like a waning candleflame, are the memories of when we were a great civilisation.



That great civilisation warred with itself and created the conditions of decline we now grin and bear. Anzac Day stands in remembrance of a past almost entirely unrecognisable from the present. The people who composed early-twentieth-century.

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