Mark Deasy 🍉Apr 25, 2025

Surafend. Lest we forget.

"They were, he wrote, “Scarcely higher in civilisation than the Australian blacks – these wretched tribes presented a miserable and starved appearance.” "

This incident is STILL not recorded in the Australian War Memorial, despite the lazy half a billion kicked in to upgrade the place.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/postcolonial-blog/2018/dec/10/the-moment-that-forever-changed-my-perspective-on-anzac-mythology

#anzacday #Australia #surafend #warcrimes

The moment that forever changed my perspective on Anzac mythology

The Surafend massacre shows that the core business of good history must always be the preservation of memory

The Guardian
Peter RileyMay 2, 2024

https://overland.org.au/2024/04/anzac-day-and-the-half-remembered-history-of-the-anzacs-in-palestine/

#antimilitarism #Anzacs in #Palestine
#Surafend

Anzac Day and the half-remembered history of the Anzacs in Palestine - Overland literary journal

Schools are deliberate targets for government-funded mystification about Australia’s role in wars. Such instances of official remembrance crowd out the realities of war, and the consequences of Australia’s role in imperialism. As teachers, we should strive to resist this, and we should introduce our students to a fuller understanding of the history of the Anzacs.

Overland literary journal