This chapter examines how Greek, Assyrian, and Armenian communities have reframed Australia’s humanitarian response and the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) experience to strengthen their genocide recognition efforts. It explores the shift from viewing their histories as foreign issues to integrating them into Australia’s national narrative, despite challenges posed by the dominant Gallipoli-centred discourse. The analysis highlights the marginalisation of these histories while also demonstrating how communities strategically contest and reshape national memory. By assessing Australia’s humanitarian legacy and post-Ottoman political dynamics, this study situates genocide commemoration within broader domestic and international recognition efforts, highlighting the complexities of historical representation and activism.

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From Humanitarianism to Recognition: Australia and the Politics of Memory

  • Themistocles Kritikakos

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This chapter examines how Greek, Assyrian, and Armenian communities have reframed Australia’s humanitarian response and the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) experience to strengthen their genocide recognition efforts. It explores the shift from viewing their histories as foreign issues to integrating them into Australia’s national narrative, despite challenges posed by the dominant Gallipoli-centred discourse. The analysis highlights the marginalisation of these histories while also demonstrating how communities strategically contest and reshape national memory. By assessing Australia’s humanitarian legacy and post-Ottoman political dynamics, this study situates genocide commemoration within broader domestic and international recognition efforts, highlighting the complexities of historical representation and activism.