1999 June
“Dr Martin Crotty, a New Zealander who lectures Australian students, tells a story of one student who 'thumped the table after I'd given a seminar and complained at having a New Zealander come and tell us about Anzac.'
“'He was genuinely shocked when I told him what the N and the Z stood for.'
“The historian said Australians had a very 'parochial' view of WW1 and were even less aware of France and Britain's involvement than they were of New Zealand's.
“'The push should be not to just understand New Zealand but to see the Gallipoli campaign and the war in general in more internationalist terms,' he said.”
--http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2355369/Aussies-forget-the-NZ-in-Anzac
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