Activists want you to hate your country.

They say Australia was born from an invasion, the settlers who built our farms and towns were war criminals, and modern Australia sits on stolen land.

In their story, you’re on the wrong side of a war, and they still want you to feel the guilt and shame of that today.

These are the same activists who tell our children they need to be welcomed to their own country.

The same activists who want to rename Australia Day, Invasion Day.

The same activists who tried to divide us by race with the Voice to Parliament.

Now they want their version of our history, and their hatred of this nation, told at the Australian War Memorial.

It’s one more front in their fight to divide Australians and stop us being proud of our country.

But the War Memorial has to be off limits.

The Memorial’s Council has approved a new gallery on the early settlement clashes. It’s due to open in 2028, under the same roof as the galleries for Gallipoli and the Second World War.

And under the same roof as the Roll of Honour.

The Roll of Honour holds the names of more than 100,000 Australians who died in uniform. Soldiers, sailors and airmen. Nurses and peacekeepers. Families travel across the country to find a grandfather’s name there. Veterans go there to remember mates who never came home.

They made a unique sacrifice. They deserve a unique remembrance.

No activist should be allowed to undermine it.

The Memorial’s own former Director, Brendan Nelson, said “it is not the Memorial’s function to tell the story of disputes and armed conflicts where they have occurred within Australia”.

In 2013, the Memorial itself said its role under its Act “does not include internal conflicts between the Indigenous populations and the colonial powers of the day”.

Former RSL Australia President Greg Melick said “the war memorial is there for people in an Australian uniform”.

They’re right. The War Memorial remembers the wars Australians fought together, against an enemy from outside like Gallipoli, Kokoda, Long Tan and Afghanistan.

The history of the early settlement clashes with indigenous tribes belongs in the National Museum of Australia.

Think about the Year 5 class stepping off the bus in Canberra in 2028. They’ve come to learn about courage and sacrifice.

Instead, they’ll hear of the shame that built this country, and it was never really theirs.

Then they’ll walk past the names of the Australians who died for it.

And won’t feel the pride they should.

Anthony Albanese and Veterans’ Affairs Minister Matt Keogh have allowed this to happen on their watch.

Our research found two in three Australians have heard nothing about the plan. Among those who know the most, nearly three in four want it reversed.

Those who gave their lives can’t defend their Memorial. You can.

Commemoration, not demonstration.

Sign the petition to keep the War Memorial for those who served.