Prime Minister Julia Gillard has delivered ANZAC Day speeches at Gallipoli.
Minister Warren Snowdon spoke at ceremonies at Villers-Brettoneux in France.

- Listen to Gillard’s speech at the Dawn Service at Gallipoli (6m)
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- Listen to Gillard’s speech at Lone Pine, Gallipoli (6m)
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- Listen to Snowdon’s speech at Villers-Brettoneux (9m)
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Fellow Australians, friends of Australia, Veterans of Australia:
As we stand here, with the light about to break, we wonder what they must have felt as they looked out from their landing ships and thought about what lay before them.
On this day last year I had the honour to present the ANZAC Day address at the national commemoration in the forecourt of the Australian War Memorial. The War Memorial in Canberra is a poignant reminder of the enormous sacrifice that has been made by so many Australians over the generations. They were lives lost to preserve our freedom and that of our friends and allies – often very distant from Australian shores and in many instances in this region of the world.
As Australians, both here in Canberra and elsewhere in our nation and around the world, gather to give thanks and to express their enduring gratitude to the more than 102,000 Australians who laid down their lives to defend this country, its values and our freedom. And as we also collectively honour the men and women who came back, who also put their lives on the line, we take pause for a moment to reflect upon the extraordinary hold that this great day, this great tradition borne on the 25th of April 1915 and which has shaped the character and the destiny of this country more than any other tradition or influence, we reflect upon the enormous hold it continues to have on our nation.
On this quiet day, it is hard for anyone to comprehend the horrors endured here 86 springs ago. Harder, still, for those of my age and younger, most of whom have been spared the tragedy of war that was the terrible burden of our elders.
