Australia should begin to deflect its attention away from the ANZAC Day services in Turkey, and focus instead on our home-grown services, according to Victoria University\u2019s Associate Professor Anne-Marie Hede.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cThis view is probably not a popular one. After years of ANZAC myth-making, justifiably based around the Turkish landscape, it might seem unpatriotic. Such a suggestion might even be considered blasphemous \u2013 given that the ANZAC legend has developed quasi-religious overtones.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYear after year memorable, packed services are staged around Australia on Anzac Day \u2013 and Anzac Day services at home offer more Australians the opportunity to embrace this part of Australia\u2019s heritage.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are many reasons to support this argument. Staging an event like the Anzac Day service on the Gallipoli Peninsula is becoming unsustainable.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe logistics are challenging. Anzac Cove, where Australia\u2019s service is held, is not easily accessed, even at the best of times. When you consider the need to transport all the equipment associated with a modern-day event, such as the big screens, the seating, the lighting, all the port-a-loos, the programs \u2013 and everything else that goes with it, the issue of accessibility becomes even more acute.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 2005 about 80 buses carted an estimated 20,000 attendees around the Peninsula to the service site. Add to this number, all the representatives of the media.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hede questions the impacts this event has on this Gallipoli\u2019s heritage landscape.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cWhen the roads were widened in 2005 making way for the parking bays for all the buses, expert archaeologists voiced their concerns that the integrity of the heritage landscape was compromised. While others may disagree with the archaeologists, there is no doubt that the landscape was permanently changed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cVisitors have been known to pick up fragments of shrapnel from the Peninsula \u2013 small souvenirs that make their visit tangible \u2013 but over time, the removal of these souvenirs has an impact on the authenticity of the site.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf it continues on its current trajectory, the 100th anniversary of the landing of the ANZACs on the Gallipoli Peninsula will be a mammoth event \u2013 with many Australians saying they want to be on the Peninsula for 2015 service.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe vision of the 2015 ANZAC service on the Gallipoli Peninsula is something Australians should be thinking about. We should begin to seriously consider retreating from holding the commemorate services there. There\u2019s nothing wrong with retreating \u2013 after all the ANZACs did.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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