Anzac Day

ANZAC DAY – LEST WE FORGET

ANZAC DAY – LEST WE FORGET

LEST WE FORGET – three words that will be heard across Australia tomorrow as we join together as a nation to pledge to never forget the service and sacrifice of those who have served and their families. Waltzing Matilda with Last Post Spirit of the ANZACS...

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Anzac Day Address 2023 – Saint Mary’s College Cairns

Anzac Day Address 2023 – Saint Mary’s College Cairns

By George Mansford April 2023  Australia, in the 50s was alarmed at the spread of communism in our region. North Korea had invaded South Korea. Malaya, as it was in 1948, a British Colony, was under threat by increasing insurgent attacks from established bases in...

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Anzac Day Address 2023 – Saint Mary’s College Cairns

Comment: ANZAC Eternal Vigilance

Soon will arrive the One Day of the Year when our people gather throughout the nation to honour our fallen who gave all to defend our precious way of life. Those we salute were citizens from all walks of life who in troubled times exchanged plough, hammers, pens,...

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COMMEMORATING ANZAC DAY 2021

COMMEMORATING ANZAC DAY 2021

FOR what they have done this we will do — the simple reason all Australians must ensure the legacy of commemoration continues this Anzac Day. Minister for Veterans’ Affairs Darren Chester said Anzac Day was the most sacred day of commemoration on the Australian...

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Opinion: Anzac Day is on unless there’s more cowardice

Opinion: Anzac Day is on unless there’s more cowardice

BARRING further acts of political cowardice, Australians will commemorate Anzac Day 2021 as they have done for almost 106 years. Almost, because last year’s commemorations were curtailed by an overwhelming government fear of spreading an exotic disease. READ...

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ANZAC Day Spirit to Continue in 2021

ANZAC Day Spirit to Continue in 2021

ANZAC Day is the most sacred day of commemoration on the Australian calendar. It provides all Australians with the opportunity to remember and reflect on the service and sacrifice of our past and current service personnel as well as honour the more than 102,000...

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Remembering ANZAC after 105 years

Remembering ANZAC after 105 years

This article by Robert O'Neill on the significance of Anzac Day was written for the Virtual War Memorial Australia. It is kindly reproduced here with their permission. Sometimes I am confronted by people who ridicule the notion that Australia became a significant...

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Anzac Day Information

Anzac Day Information

The ABC will broadcast Nationally the Anzac Day service at 5:30 am AEST on the 25th April,  Anzac Day, with Television coverage beginning at 5:00 am. It will be a private service, not open to the public, and televised from the Great Hall at the Australian...

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Update on Anzac Day Arrangements 2020

Update on Anzac Day Arrangements 2020

Here are comments made by Minister Chester over the weekend regarding Anzac Day arrangements. “The response to Coronavirus is a rapidly developing situation which the Federal Government is monitoring closely in partnership with State and Territory Governments and...

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