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Tango01 | 30 Nov 2016 9:40 p.m. PST |
… about myth making and Gallipoli. "When Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating claimed that Churchill 'betrayed' Australia by abandoning it to the enemy during the Second World War, Britain's tabloid press erupted with indignation. The recent controversy reminds us that during both world wars Australian soldiers and politicians bucked against being subject to the whim of an imperial command whose interests did not always coincide with their own. Though these tensions were often concealed by wartime censorship and post-war official histories, they have resurfaced in an increasingly nationalistic Australian popular culture. In the early 1980s, Peter Weir's popular film Gallipoli convinced many Australian viewers that British officers were responsible for the unnecessary sacrifice of the West Australian Light Horsemen. Television series about Australians on the Western Front have made the same impression. Significantly, Alan Bleasdale's series The Monocled Mutineer outraged Britain's conservative press and politicians, but in Australia its depiction of Australians as ringleaders of mutiny against British military brutality was generally well received. Fiftieth anniversaries have now shifted attention to the Second World War, for which Keating was able to draw upon David Day's history of Churchill's Great Betrayal , and the influential 1989 mini-series The Last Bastion…" Main page link Amicalement Armand |
frostydog | 03 Dec 2016 3:17 a.m. PST |
Mmm the article is dated 1993. Old news really. |
Tango01 | 03 Dec 2016 11:31 a.m. PST |
Not news at all my friend… only new in the forum and an interesting article imho… (smile) Amicalement Armand
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Chouan | 19 Dec 2016 4:15 a.m. PST |
Interesting in that it reveals much about nationalist myth making. The Australians themselves determining that "straggling", for whatever reason, was un-Australian, and therefore had to be expunged from the official account. Much like the rest of the Gallipoli myths that sustain much of Australia's nationalism. |
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