{"id":1784,"date":"2011-01-21T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T08:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2023-08-30T18:26:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T08:26:17","slug":"gallipoli-myth-and-national-identity-a-very-recent-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1784","title":{"rendered":"Gallipoli Myth and National Identity &#8211; A Very Recent Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">National Convenor, Sarah Brasch,\u00a0speaks in Canakkale,\u00a0Turkey about the Gallipoli myth and\u00a0national identity.\u00a0 She emphasised that the\u00a0current fashion to consider\u00a0Gallipoli as the sole determinant of\u00a0Australian\u00a0characteristics has only been in vogue\u00a0for 20 years\u00a0and that it\u00a0is the product of political spin starting with Prime Minister Hawke&#8217;s speech at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1990.\u00a0 She also pointed out that there were no Australian\u00a0women\u00a0on the\u00a0Gallipoli Peninsula in 1915 and the small number of Indigenous soldiers\u00a0in the battles\u00a0weren&#8217;t even Australian citizens at the time. So not only was it militaristic but a glaringly exclusive event\u00a0that has gone on to assume an overblown importance\u00a0in the national psyche as the spruiking of the\u00a0myth by politicians\u00a0has overtaken the facts and commonsense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Convenor, Sarah Brasch,\u00a0speaks in Canakkale,\u00a0Turkey about the Gallipoli myth and\u00a0national identity.\u00a0 She emphasised that the\u00a0current fashion to consider\u00a0Gallipoli as the sole determinant of\u00a0Australian\u00a0characteristics has only been in vogue\u00a0for 20 years\u00a0and that it\u00a0is the product of political spin starting with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21","wpcat-21-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1785,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions\/1785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}