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The ANZAC Spirit Has Never Been More Needed

There can’t be many countries whose patriotic focal point is a military loss, yet that is true of us.
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The ANZAC Spirit Has Never Been More Needed
The Anzac Day Parade held at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, Australia, on April 25, 2024. Tracey Nearmy/Getty Images
David Daintree
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On May 4, 1940, my father embarked on the first voyage of the Queen Mary, since her conversion to a troop ship, to sail to the Middle East to fight the Axis powers.

David Daintree
David Daintree
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David Daintree is director of the Christopher Dawson Centre for Cultural Studies in Tasmania, Australia. He has a background in classics and teaches Late and Medieval Latin. Mr. Daintree was a visiting professor at the universities of Siena and Venice, and a visiting scholar at the University of Manitoba. He served as president of Campion College from 2008 to 2012. In 2017, he was made a member of the Order of Australia on the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
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