The thousands of Australians who enlisted to fight in the First World War did so because they believed that their liberties were under threat. They fought for freedom and democracy.
However, Richard Flanagan, the Tasmanian novelist and essayist, has said that Anzac Day is a ‘dangerous myth’ and a ‘cult’, and that the government should not spend $100 million on the Sir John Monash Centre Australian National Memorial in France.
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