Politics by Campbell Gellie Premium Content  HOME Affairs Secretary Michael Pezzullo has used his Anzac Day address to warn the "drums of war'' are beating and that Australia is bracing "for the curse of war''. Sent to all Home Affairs staff, Mr Pezzullo said we must "continue to search unceasingly for the chance for peace", the Australian reported. "Today, as free nations again hear the beating drums and watch worryingly the militarisation of ¬issues that we had, until recent years, thought unlikely to be -catalysts for war, let us continue to search unceasingly for the chance for peace while bracing again, yet again, for the curse of war.," he was reported to have written.