Lest You Forget: memory and Australian nationalism in a global era

With the exception of sport, Australians don’t mind losing. Losing entire wars of course interrupts the flow of the Australian narrative: the gradual evolution of a prosperous, democratic society far from the land of its modern origins now charting its own course through the new global dispositions of the twenty-first century. Losing battles on the other hand, is acceptable as long as the outcome is assured. This then is one of the strongest leitmotifs within Australian collective memory: tr..