Wednesday, 6 August 2014 - 7:59pm
I don't think this goes far enough. Now that the Great War has been totally decontextualised, I propose that we also publicly shame all the descendants of conscientious objectors, and force them to wear a white feather in public. They must be made to pay for their ancestors' disloyalty in the face of the terrible threat to Australia's territorial sovereignty that the Ottoman Empire then posed, and that for all we know (in our proud, patriotic ignorance) still hangs over us. Too few people now remember how terribly close we came to peace. It is only through vigorous selective remembrance that 'Straya remains defiantly barbaric.