When I drove through Gawler the other day on my way north I I sent some time walking around the town:. I came across this powerful image in a shop window relating to WW1, and more specifically to November 11, the anniversary of the armistice which ended fighting on the Western Front of what was then called the Great War.

I found the window display quite disturbing and I was really upset — nay distraught — that there no white poppies in the window display as well.

I realized that a conservative culture is dominate in Gawler and the Mid-North region of South Australia.I can understand that the rural populations in South Australia lost a lot of their men in the 1914-18 war but surely WW1 was a European war. Australian was not threatened by Germany in any way.

So where is the anti-war remembrance — the white poppy? Shouldn’t it be there as well?

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