Kota Kinabalu: Australia provides funding annually for the maintenance of Commonwealth War Cemeteries and Australian Military History is taught in schools, said Australian Assistant Defence Minister Matt Thistlethwaite.
Anzac Day now stands alone on the calendar as a symbolic bastion of national identity, an identity the Left wants expunged not only to create further room for its ever-growing collection of ersatz days of pride and mourning, but also to create a cultural tabula rasa that can be re-engineered according to ideology and fashion
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