Ben Wadham is a researcher with the Centre for Crime Policy and Research Centre at Flinders University. He is the Director of the Doctor of Education and researches, nationalism, militarism, military crime and Australian cultural relations.
For anyone sensitive to the pervasive signs of militarisation, there is no doubt that the centenary invites unwelcome forms of commemoration. Look at the distortions in the documented history of bloodshed in Gallipoli in 1915.