Let the ANZAC Spirit Unite Our Divided Country

Commentary You don’t have to revel or revere the ANZACs, that is your choice. But we should always remember and respect what they did for us and all of Australia. Throughout World War I, at a time when the population of our nation wasn’t even five million strong, nearly half a million young Australians decided to volunteer and fight for the freedoms of our allies on shores far away. To board boats and sail waters never before travelled by so many, who were so young, with almost a quarter of their number to never return. They went to fight for what we still hold dearest today—freedom. To help those in need and in such a way that they left the fingerprints of our island nation on the great places of history....