Do you think the big revival of it has been due to it being 100 years since? Part of it is probably also about us and Australia starting to be nations, and here anyway I've seen photos posted of the people who died, plus there've been memorials by each tree on Severn Street since before I came (probably 2014)*, and people at the cenotaph services seemed reverent about the dead rather than nationalistic.

* When I got here, I thought, "Wow, lots of traffic accidents on this street!" :-P

That said, we don't have a national day like many countries so maybe people want to make this one it.

[deploys poppy because has one]