Pro-Palestine lobby group sends teachers classroom guide challenging ‘Anzac mythology’

Racism, imperialism and the ANZAC myth

Peter Boyle argues that Labor and Coalition governments have exploited the ANZAC sacrifice myth to justify and promote Australian participation of, and complicity in, subsequent imperial wars.

Pro-Palestine group sends teachers classroom guide challenging ‘Anzac mythology’

Teachers for Palestine want schoolchildren taught about Australian soldiers acting as “enforcers of Empire” in post-WWI Egypt.

Pro-Palestine lobby group sends teachers classroom guide challenging ‘Anzac mythology’

Teachers around the country have received an alternative Anzac Day classroom resource by Teachers for Palestine, highlighting Australian troops’ role in the Middle East during World War 1.

Tom Elliott clashes with a Teachers for Palestine spokesperson over the Anzacs

Teachers for Palestine have revealed they want to change how the Anzac story is taught to students. Spokesperson Lucy Honan says they want students to learn what actions the Anzacs took, especially the actions, they claim, promoted British imperialism. “We released a resource that looks at the way the original Anzacs were involved in crushing […]

Lest We Forget what? Our ANZACS, Palestine, and the Kiwi Conviction Crisis

At Sunnynook Primary School, we were made to stand in silence for ANZAC Day. I thought I understood the sacrifices and the reasons for our remembrance. Today, I wonder if those often-elevated lessons and the values imparted as part of our national memory are being forgotten.My grandfather, an RNZAF pilot, served in the RAF during the Battles of France and Britain and later in Lancaster bomber raids over Germany, earning the Distinguished Service