Why isn’t Malta represented here?

Published: April 24, 2015 at 3:29pm

All the wounded of the Gallipoli Campaign – 150,000 – were brought to Malta and tended here, where many of them are buried.

Australia Hall in St Andrew’s, which the Labour Party has sold to enrich itself, was built specifically as a place of recreation for soldiers wounded in the Gallipoli Campaign.

Eight hundred Maltese labourers were shipped out to the campaign to form part of the civilian labour corps, alongside 1,200 Egyptians.

Maltese army officers and men fought and died in that campaign.

But Malta is not represented among the world leaders in Gallipoli today. It is not a gay rights convention.