100 years on, Australia′s still out of step on the Armenian genocide

Abstract

There’s no escaping the media blitz on tomorrow’s centenary of the Anzac landing at Gallipoli. That’s understandable. Less easy to grasp is the way Australia has largely chosen to shut its eyes to the centenary of another event in the same country: the Turkish genocide of 1.5 million Armenians, between 750,000 and 900,000 Greeks, and between 275,000 and 400,000 Christian Assyrians, which began on April 24, 1915. Show more