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Recent documentary release of Sir John Monash “Monash The Forgotten ANZAC” reminds all of his importance in development of Australian character including innovation, individuality, equality and responsibility. However, Australian political (and other) leaders, both left and right, seem to have been promoting the opposite in recent years, in the name of "Australian values". Targetting those of non Anglo/Celtic background, like Monash whose family was Prussian Jewish, as not being Australian, adhoc amateur approaches to issues of the day and evading accountability (for encouraging jingoistic and racially based nationalism), not very Australian…. http://www.abc.net.au/tv/documentaries/interactive/monash/

John Monash Father of the Blitzkrieg http://www.convictcreations.com/history/monash.html

"not lip service, nor obsequious homage to superiors, nor servile observance of forms and customs...the Australian army is proof that individualism is the best and not the worst foundation upon which to build up collective discipline" General John Monash

More praise came from British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery who said of Monash:

"I would name Sir John Monash as the best general on the western front in Europe".