An Epic Forgetting

Clark, AH

An Epic Forgetting

Clark, AH

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Publisher:: University of Western Sydney
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Sydney Review of Books, 2014, August
Issue Date:: 2014-01

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dc.contributor.author	Clark, AH https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1003-9673	en_US
dc.date.issued	2014-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Sydney Review of Books, 2014, August	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	2201-8735	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/35521
dc.description.abstract	There has been an extraordinary resurgence in the commemoration of Australians at war in recent decades. An estimated 50 000 people attended Anzac Day marches around the nation in 1984; a generation later, in 2014, more than that number attended the dawn service at Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance alone. As backpackers undertake the rite of passage to Gallipoli, record numbers swell Anzac marches at home, and the news fills with emotive, resonant images of war, past and present. Yet there is a blind-spot in this clamour to commemorate, as Henry Reynolds insists in his latest book, Forgotten War. ‘Since 1994 there has been a continuous program to commemorate the men and women who have served in Australia’s overseas wars from 1885 to the present,’ he writes; and yet conflict also ‘accompanied the pioneer settlers into almost every district on the continent’. It is this war ‘between settlers and Indigenous nations’ that ‘made the nation’, Reynolds argues, ‘not the fateful invasion of Turkey’	en_US
dc.publisher	University of Western Sydney	en_US
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dc.title	An Epic Forgetting	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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Abstract:

There has been an extraordinary resurgence in the commemoration of Australians at war in recent decades. An estimated 50 000 people attended Anzac Day marches around the nation in 1984; a generation later, in 2014, more than that number attended the dawn service at Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance alone. As backpackers undertake the rite of passage to Gallipoli, record numbers swell Anzac marches at home, and the news fills with emotive, resonant images of war, past and present. Yet there is a blind-spot in this clamour to commemorate, as Henry Reynolds insists in his latest book, Forgotten War. ‘Since 1994 there has been a continuous program to commemorate the men and women who have served in Australia’s overseas wars from 1885 to the present,’ he writes; and yet conflict also ‘accompanied the pioneer settlers into almost every district on the continent’. It is this war ‘between settlers and Indigenous nations’ that ‘made the nation’, Reynolds argues, ‘not the fateful invasion of Turkey’

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