Why the Sacredness of the Australian War Memorial Matters - Sign the Petition

The Australian War Memorial honours 103,140 servicemen and women who laid down their lives fighting our enemies, and ensuring our country and future generations of Australians could be free.

This number - 103,140 - should be etched into the memory of every man, woman and secondary student in Australia. It is a number that should be solemnly reflected upon every Anzac and Remembrance Day, even if only for a few minutes.

These Australians, by serving their country in uniform, are owed an enormous debt by us, and today we are the custodians of the memory of the ultimate sacrifice they paid in protecting our nation.

We have a sacred obligation to honour this sacrifice and to protect their legacy against any who would seek to diminish, or indeed desecrate, their memory and honoured place at the Australian War Memorial.

Yet here we are in 2026, having to fight another political battle on their behalf, against activist insurgents hell-bent on destroying the fundamental basis of why we honour the Australian war dead at the War Memorial in the first place.

We honour these 103,140 servicemen and women at our nation’s most sacred shrine because they were Australians who agreed to don our country’s uniform, swear an allegiance “to serve our Sovereign Lord, the King” in the “military forces of Australia under the Crown” and to “resist His Majesty’s enemies.”

Yet activists, aided and abetted by an increasingly compliant War Memorial Council under Labor’s Kim Beazley, are advocating to fundamentally overturn the criteria for being honoured within the War Memorial.

The activists want to memorialise some 100,000 Aboriginal people said to have been killed during the so-called ‘Frontier Wars’ in pre-Federation, colonial Australia.

These Aboriginal people are un-named and the 100,000 figure is ficticious - just a number pulled out of thin air for political purposes by the activist historians, who rely on mathematical formulas in their calculations. They have never presented any real evidence or records to support their death toll guesses.

In reality, none of these Aborigines could in any way be deemed to meet the War Memorial criteria: none of them were members of the “defence forces” raised by the Crown; none wore an Australian military uniform; none swore an allegiance to our “Sovereign Lord, the King or Queen”; and, far from “resisting His Majesty’s enemies”, the activists openly admit these Aborigines were in fact His Majesty’s enemies, given their claimed ‘war of resistance’ against the British colonisation of their lands.

In contrast, the Australian war dead are real people - 103,140 sacrificed lives - people with names, service numbers and military records, who were fighting to preserve the legacies of the British colonisation of Australia.

These two peoples - the Aborigines and the Australian war dead - could not be more different. An anonymous group fighting against colonisation and the Crown; the other fighting as British subjects for the Crown.

It is thus patently absurd to memorialise and honour on an equal basis these Aboriginal “enemies” of the Crown alongside the 103,140 Australians who gave their lives defending us from the Crown’s enemies. Are we now expected to consider honouring other “enemies” of the Crown at our national shrine also - the Germans, Japanese and Viet Cong perhaps?

There is something deeply sacriligeous, and indeed immoral, about an activist class barging in and trying to politicise our national shrine in this way. Their advocacy is a desecration of the memory of our 103,140 war dead, and a direct insult to their families today.

The Australian War Memorial is one of the last of the great institutions in Australia that has not been infiltrated the Far-Left activist class and their deeply divisive, political and racist ideas.

And why would the anti-British, un-Australian activists even want to ‘honour’ their Aboriginal ‘war dead’ within the coloniser’s war memorial, unless it was simply for politically divisive, vengeful or sacrilegious reasons?

To save our War Memorial and to preserve the honour, dignity and indeed sacredness of the 103,140 Australians who paid the ultimate sacrifice to protect our lives and our Australian way of life, it is incumbent on all of us to Defend Sacred Ground by signing the petition below which rejects the activist’s takeover and desecration of our country’s most sacred site.

Chairman Kim Beazley and his War Memorial Council need to be told this is just not on.