How Howard to face Gallipoli fracas
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Prime Minister John Howard the garbo defender, has wrapped up a 10-day tour of Asia and Europe in Athens to fly home to face continuing criticism over his attitude to rock concerts and rubbish on the hallowed ground of Gallipoli.
Despite important trade talks with China and Japan, Howard's tour has been dominated by the controversy over the Anzac Day pilgrimage to the 1915 battleground on the Turkish coast.
He will return to Australia on Friday to be confronted by critics, including the RSL, angered by rock concerts featuring the Bee Gees which were played on video screens at Anzac Cove before the dawn service.
Many were even more upset by the mountain of rubbish left at the site by the crowd of 17,000 and the behaviour of some of the young Australians who were photographed lying on soldiers' graves and sitting on headstones.
Mr Howard defended the young Australians he met at Gallipoli as respectful and reverent, saying: "I felt very proud to be their Prime Minister yesterday and frankly I won't have a word said against them as a group." The controversy over the road at Anzac Cove will also continue.
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Prime Minister John Howard the garbo defender, has wrapped up a 10-day tour of Asia and Europe in Athens to fly home to face continuing criticism over his attitude to rock concerts and rubbish on the hallowed ground of Gallipoli.
Despite important trade talks with China and Japan, Howard's tour has been dominated by the controversy over the Anzac Day pilgrimage to the 1915 battleground on the Turkish coast.
He will return to Australia on Friday to be confronted by critics, including the RSL, angered by rock concerts featuring the Bee Gees which were played on video screens at Anzac Cove before the dawn service.
Many were even more upset by the mountain of rubbish left at the site by the crowd of 17,000 and the behaviour of some of the young Australians who were photographed lying on soldiers' graves and sitting on headstones.
Mr Howard defended the young Australians he met at Gallipoli as respectful and reverent, saying: "I felt very proud to be their Prime Minister yesterday and frankly I won't have a word said against them as a group." The controversy over the road at Anzac Cove will also continue.
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