Conservatives argue we should ban political parties because our soldiers ‘fought against Nazi ideology’. Not only does this ignore that the Anzacs were alive during the peak of numerous domestic Nazi parties, but their engagement against Germany in WW2 wasn’t an idealogical crusade. They fought for empire and a White Australia, with the former seen as able to protect the latter. By today’s standards, many of them would probably be considered Nazis. Many of these same men voted against banning th

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