I'm sorry but those two are mutually exclusive.
Firstly, why apologise for your opinion?
Secondly, I think you need to take another look at the definition of "mutually exclusive"
In any case, on your logic, every family who has relative buried overseas should be able to ask for them to be dug up and shifted "home"?
What people forget is that the majority of Australians at the time considered Britain the "Mother Country". That is precisely WHY those sorts of conventions were adopted in the first place. "There is some corner of a foreign field" and so on. No one has the right to decide for
those people based on some "modern" idea of "proper" 70 years later.
Society relies on convention for its very existence. As much as this generation would like to believe that they have broken down silly outmoded conventions all they have achieved, if anything, is to have put in place a different load of silly and soon to be outmoded conventions. It has been thus since time began. And is what makes it important to respect and take the time to LEARN what conventions have been.
And BEFORE you accuse me of being an Anglophile, I am of Irish Catholic lineage and have no natural predisposition towards the British. I am an Australian, fiercely proud of it, of OUR CONVENTIONS and of OUR history.
respectfully submitted,