We must never abandon the Australia our soldiers defended

In his funeral oration to the mothers and wives of fallen soldiers, Pericles, the Athenian leader, said: “Like them, remember that prosperity can only be for the free, that freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.”

This line is engraved on war memorials across Australia, New Zealand and other Commonwealth nations, quoted at dawn services and used in official Anzac Day reflections for almost a century. Instead of honouring what these great soldiers, including our special forces, served and died to defend, in one sentence Anthony Albanese told us plainly: “We can’t go back to the way Australia used to be.” Instead of Pericles, what we have here in Australia, more than a century on from the first Anzac Day commemorations, is betrayal, deceit and denial by a fickle political class.

In that single phrase the Prime Minister dismisses the Australia our forebears built and defended – the sovereign, cohesive, Judaeo-Christian democracy that produced the Anzac legend. The level of deceit is profound. On Anzac Day the government will speak of gratitude. Yet its actions reveal contempt for the masculine culture that produced these soldiers.

The same government that lectures us about moving “forward” into some undefined Islamist-influenced utopia continues overseeing the betrayal of our elite warriors who have protected us from real threats. And the denial is a psychological condition best explained in Leon Festinger’s 1957 work on cognitive dissonance and best illustrated following the Bondi terrorist attack when some said it is not them, it is us.

While the government speaks of valour at the cenotaphs, it continues raids on our special forces veterans – the “rough men” who, as George Orwell wrote, “stand ready to do violence on their behalf” so the rest of us may sleep peacefully.

Former British prime minister Winston Churchill faced the same hypocrisy when he created the Special Operations Executive. His saboteurs, disguised as goat herders or German soldiers, were denounced in the House of Commons for fighting the Nazis in an “ungentlemanly” manner.

When the next attack comes, we will beg for exactly these dangerous men who are willing and capable of applying the most lethal amount of force through the least amount of effort in places where only a few would want to be sent. And when they return they will be welcome in our house.

During this speech at the end of the first year of the Peloponnesian War, Pericles was making a direct call for resolve in the face of an enemy already inside the gates of Athens. The same position we find ourselves in Australia.

Pericles did not merely mourn the dead; he reminded the living what they had won and what they stood to lose: “We have a form of government that does not copy the laws of neighbouring states,” he declared. “We are a model to others rather than they to us.” Unlike our own political leadership and corporate globalists in Australia, he did not ride the three horses of weakness – apology, acquiescence and acceptance – in the face of a relentless enemy and a virtuous elite conflicted by fear, interest and honour.

Athens honoured its fallen not with empty rituals but by recommitting to the exceptional society they had defended. While Anzac Day remembrance can mean many things to many people, none of us who attend Anzac services go to reflect how their relatives fought and died for some abstract “diversity” or open borders and the ascendancy of Islamism but for an Australia that was unmistakably theirs. One worth fighting for again so future generations could remain free. We do not attend Anzac Day services to be told by a prime minister with casual condescending contempt that our way of life is over. Because when you think about it, this one sentence is an admission of defeat.

In contrast to our soldiers, we have been shown a catastrophic failure of courage. Our political class has treated freedom as a limitless resource that can be extended to its enemies without consequence.

Orwell reminded us in 1942 that there is no neutral ground when civilisation is under assault. The tanks we send to Ukraine, the aid we dispatch abroad, are meaningless if we lack the moral courage to defend our own society at home. As Thucydides records in his History of the Peloponnesian War, one of the most important lessons about war and freedom is even the strongest democracy can destroy itself from within when its leaders lose the courage to defend its values and instead accommodate its enemies.

Our soldiers did not fight fascism, Japanese militarism or Islamist extremism only to return home and see their successors hounded by their own government and miserable journalists and self-aggrandising lawyers – while that same government opens our borders to the ideology those soldiers had risked their lives to contain.

That single line from Pericles is and should remain an iron-clad principle: the government’s failure is not mere policy error. It is a moral abandonment of the one non-negotiable requirement for freedom to survive.

On Saturday, as we remember the ordinary soldiers, the boots not the suits – farmers, clerks, shearers and schoolteachers – who left the sunburnt country they loved to stare down tyranny in distant lands, we must choose.

We can accept Albanese’s counsel and abandon the Australia our forebears built and defended at such cost – or we can resolve, as Pericles urged, to be worthy of their sacrifice. That means rejecting the false choice between compassion and survival. And realising the Orwellian phrase “diversity is our strength” is a direct afront to our nation.

It also means recognising that sanctuary for those who hate us is not generosity; it is strategic surrender. And it means declaring, with the same unyielding clarity as the men who lie beneath the poppies, that this Australia – the one worth fighting for – is not behind us. It is ours to reclaim.

Freedom is not inherited. It is defended. The Diggers proved that. The question for our generation is whether we still possess the courage they did, no matter where they fought.

When I was there Pakis and Indians were running the tourist trap junk souvenir stores in Sydney. Aside from that they were far and few between. Now.... They imported the worst of the worst and the beaches are filled with “youth” tormenting the locals. Rather melanated “youth” from African s holes. Melbourne has gangs of Sudanese trash causing violence. And of course any mention is
Muh racism.”

Sad to see. A great place to visit. Now, the bogans are all too old to fight back and the natives are too drunk to care.

... in one sentence Anthony Albanese told us plainly: “We can’t go back to the way Australia used to be.” Instead of Pericles, what we have here in Australia, more than a century on from the first Anzac Day commemorations, is betrayal, deceit and denial by a fickle political class. In that single phrase the Prime Minister dismisses the Australia our forebears built and defended – the sovereign, cohesive, Judaeo-Christian democracy that produced the Anzac legend. ...

5 posted on 04/21/2026 8:22:07 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)

“We must never abandon the Australia that our soldiers defended”.
Clue; you already have. Your government has disarmed you and has given over your country to the NWO European banking cartel families. Your soldiers have died in vein and currently you Australians have no means of ever recovering from the treachery of your government elite.

I wish Americans knew more about Australia than they think they do. There's a lot of propaganda about - probably from China - and it clearly has an effect.

Your government has disarmed you

I'm not going to bother going into all of it - but this is the simplest to address. No, we are not disarmed. Law abiding citizens can own firearms quite easily if they choose to, and there are more guns legally held in private hands than at any time in Australian history. There are plenty of dumb gun laws here, but they routinely get exaggerated for American audiences.

My local gun shop is fairly anemic, but there are better ones around.

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