During the catastrophic 2019 and 2020 bushfire season and the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020, Queensland’s Courier Mail regularly celebrated firefighters and health workers as national archetypes. By positioning them as the ‘new Anzacs’, the Courier Mail was able to communicate an understanding of the crises using a rhetoric that was familiar, unthreatening and reassuring. The firefighters, both professional and volunteer, were easily subsumed into the mythology’s celebration of national identity. As Queensland’s health workers were predominantly female, urban-based and educated, the article used a more modern iteration of the Anzac mythology better suited to this different context. The emergence of a ‘kinder, gentler Anzac’ in the 1970s and its focus on trauma, suffering and empathy proved equally useful as a rhetorical tool. Both approaches were underpinned by a move away from a narrow military context to the Anzac mythology’s standing as a civic religion that celebrates more universal values such as courage, endurance, sacrifice and comradeship.

在灾难性的2019年和2020年的丛林大火季节以及2020年的冠状病毒（COVID-19）大流行期间，昆士兰州的《信使邮报》定期庆祝消防员和卫生工作者是国家的原型。通过将它们定位为“新的Anzacs”，即快递信能够使用熟悉，无威胁和令人放心的言论传达对危机的理解。消防员，无论是专业人士还是志愿人员，都容易被纳入神话中的民族身份庆祝活动。由于昆士兰州的卫生工作者主要是女性，以城市为基础并且受过教育，因此本文使用了更现代的安扎克神话版本，更适合这种不同的情况。1970年代，“更温和的安扎克”的出现及其对创伤，苦难和同情的关注被证明作为修辞工具同样有用。两种方法的基础都是从狭military的军事环境转向安扎克神话作为公民宗教的地位，该宗教倡导更普遍的价值观，例如勇气，忍耐，牺牲和同志心。