North Bondi RSL’s gone and fucked it.
They’ve canned two-up for Anzac Day 2025. Yep, that coin-tossing game – a proper Aussie tradition – is out the door. Instead, they’re banging on about a “respectful, family-oriented environment.” Sounds nice, doesn’t it? Except it’s a gutless move that shows everything wrong with Australia today.
Two-up’s not just some pub game. It was born in the trenches – World War I, Aussie diggers tossing coins to pass the time between dodging bullets. It’s woven into Anzac Day like the dawn service and some beers after with mates. North Bondi’s been running it forever, but now? They’re saying it’s too “rowdy” for April 25. Chief exec Blake Johnson reckons veteran members begged them to keep it family-friendly. Call me cynical, but I’m not buying that.
This is Australia bending over for the whingers. Same shit we saw with pubs ditching Australia Day parties because a few loudmouths cried “offensive.” We’re so scared of upsetting someone that we’re torching our own culture. Two-up’s one of the few things that screams Aussie – rough, real, a bit of a laugh. It’s not just a game; it’s a nod to the blokes who fought, died, and still found a way to have a punt in hell. Now we can’t even celebrate it without someone clutching pearls?
Johnson says it’s about remembering veterans and supporting families. Fair enough – Anzac Day’s heavy, no question. Dawn service at Bondi Beach, the march through Sydney’s CBD, that’s sacred stuff. We’re losing what it means to be Australian – that larrikin spirit, the ability to honour the past while still having a laugh. Now it’s all sanitised, like we’re ashamed of who we are.
It’s hypocrisy at it’s finest – they’ll still be running the TAB room or pokies that day, guarantee it. It’s the fundamental issue with the politically correct these days in that every moral high ground they take contradicts the core of who they are.
What’s wrong with Australia today? We’re letting the fun police strip us bare. We can’t celebrate our culture without someone screaming it’s too loud, too rough, too Aussie. Anzac Day’s for remembering the fallen, but it’s also for living – sharing a yarn, raising a glass, tossing a coin. Two-up’s not the issue; it’s the symbol of a country too spineless to stand up for itself. Other RSLs across NSW are keeping it – good on ‘em. North Bondi’s out here acting like they’re above it, but they’re just folding to the noise.
I’m not saying get plastered and trash the place. Honour the day, respect the vets – that is absolutely paramount – but don’t erase what makes us us. It’s one of the few traditions that Australian culture still has, and if we start removing these traditions one by one – we lose what it means to be Australian.
