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...
Anzac Day
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Spirit of Anzac: Remembering the birth of a national mythology
Despite its age, Australia as a nation has always acquitted itself on the field of battle with honour, bravery and an undying sense of camaraderie – as we prepare to commemorate Anzac Day 2020, under a cloud of uncertainty, the virtues exemplified by the...
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...
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...