The Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop, and the Special Minister of State, Senator Michael Ronaldson, have delivered speeches at ANZAC Day services overseas.
Ronaldson, who is also the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Centenary of ANZAC, spoke at the Gallipoli Dawn Service and the Lone Pine Service, in Turkey.
Bishop spoke at the Dawn Service at Villers-Brettonneux, in France. [Read more…]
Tony Abbott has delivered his first prime ministerial address to a National ANZAC Day service.
Abbott spoke in Canberra at the War Memorial service on the 99th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings.
Abbott said Gallipoli “was but one campaign in a four year war” that “still casts its shadow over the wider world”. [Read more…]
The Minister for Defence, Brendan Nelson, has represented the Australian government at the Dawn Service at Gallipoli, in Turkey.
In his address, Nelson said: “At this hour ninety two years ago, ANZACs were on the cusp of giving our nation its identity and place in the world, not only by what they would do here, but how they would do it.”
Text of Defence Minister Brendan Nelson’s Address at the Dawn Service at Gallipoli, Turkey.
Australians all let us rejoice, for we are young and free.
Our anthem is a national epitaph to those whose sacrifice in peace and war, gave us that freedom.
Family epitaphs to the dead, in so few words, say so much – of love, life, loss and us. [Read more…]
The Australian Greens claim John Howard should have taken Mark Latham to Iraq as part of his Anzac Day visit.
Senator Bob Brown said Anzac Day should be above politics. [Read more…]