Can you bear it?

In The Age today, Monash University’s Professor Bruce Scates makes like the very model of a modern academic and gives the Anzac legend the benefit of both barrels.

“These harsh realities of the aftermath of war do not lend themselves to the rousing rhetoric of princes or politicians. They highlight the obscenity of what has become a parody of remembrance, Anzac as carnival, commodity and re-enactment, a brand sold by tour guides, breweries, and supermarkets. In 1915, the landing failed. In 2015, we failed that generation yet again.”

Yes, indeed, the tawdry commercialisation of Australia’s most sacred secular feast is to be lamented. To see just how lamentable, after you finish reading Professor Scates’ latest annual, repetitive assault on Anzac Day and profiteering, follow the link below to see the anything-but-cheap junk The Age and Fairfax are flogging to mark the landing’s 100th anniversary.

If you don’t fancy a teddy bear in full Light Horse regalia (above), the rag doll Anzac nurse (below) might do the trick.

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