I am in Sydney & the ANZAC Memorial (like @AWMemorial & the Shrine etal) was built as a shrine for our war dead & esp the families of those who served, whose loved ones in the Great War had no grave or whose grave the families could never visit. These are thus very solemn places.
Now, reasonable people can disagree about protests. I have been in one, for the @SSFCRABBITOHS reinstatement to the NRL competition. As Souths were and are a 1908 Foundation Club, our exclusion raised many passions, but none that required violence or the desecration of a shrine.
According to Captain Stephen Bowater of the Melbourne Shrine, interviewed by @ljayes, yesterday's protesters did not just use the Shrine for protest, necessitating police responses, but also used it in a gross manner that required members of the public to go there & clean it up.
Most Australians will have conflicting views on State Govts & their performance in this pandemic. On any view, we are not governed particularly well. We have not all been in this together. BUT there is NO excuse for using the Shrine as a political stage, for any cause, ever.
Everyone involved in yesterday's muppetry, shenanigans, and performance artistry, at the Shrine, often as some form of political grift, should hang their heads in deserved shame. Hopefully the Victorian Police prosecute them under the appropriate laws & health orders.
Well said RSL Victoria
A very well done to @ljayes for interviewing Captain Stephen Bowater, of Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance, in respect of the Shrine's importance to all Australians, and yesterday's tragic & appalling events. Well done to those who cleansed the Shrine.

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Noting discussions of Sir Robert Peel in the discourse.

Robert Peel betrayed the Conservative Party & Britain when he repealed the Corn Laws. Peel’s betrayal, as Disraeli noted, was a crime against the territorial constitution & a theft of power from the country to the city.
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I joined @BishopUmbers & Dr Ruella Clipsham in a discussion on Covid, Vaccination, and Catholic teaching, hosted by the Diocese of Parramatta
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Pope Francis on the obligations on Catholics to get vaccinated as an act of medical necessity for oneself & family + solidarity for one's community:

“Getting vaccinated is a simple yet profound way to care for one another, especially the most vulnerable"
vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2…
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theaustralian.com.au/nation/defence…
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Australia has had (and always will have) an intimate defence & security relationship with the UK & USA. But we also have close defence relations with the French, Japan, Israel, Singapore, Korea, Gulf Kingdoms, etal. We do not have to choose here. They are all Allies as well.
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Good morning all & OTD in 1944, Operation Market Garden began: a daring plan for airborne landings behind German lines to secure the River Rhine crossings, which would be secured by an Allied armoured thrust to liberate Holland & secure bridges which, sadly, would be 'too far'
Market Garden’s failure was a rare Intelligence driven failure. The actual combatants fought with extraordinary bravery to try and bring a swift end to the war. All the Allied paratroopers should be very proud of their history, how bravely they fought, and what....almost....was
Excellent map of Op Market Garden AO. The irony of General Student's own Fallschirmjäger paratroopers to East. An ambitious plan that failed because of Intelligence & Plans not thinking through the 'known unknowns'. Weird given Allied experiences of the German defences to date.
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