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Anzac Day

April

The MCG on Anzac Day 2025.

A few neo-Nazis tried to disrupt Anzac Day. The MCG crowd answered

Indigenous elder Colin Hunter got a rousing welcome at the AFL’s traditional Anzac Day game, hours after right-wing activists tried to disrupt Melbourne’s dawn service.

PM calls Anzac Day service disruption a ‘disgrace’

Anthony Albanese has condemned a far-right wing disruption of Anzac Day dawn services in Melbourne.

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This Anzac Day, we owe our soldiers more than speeches and silence

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Albanese and Dutton pause campaigns for Anzac Day services

The prime minister attended the dawn service at the War Memorial in Canberra, while the opposition leader was at Pine Rivers RSL in his Brisbane electorate of Dickson.

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The narrative of Australia as the callow dupe of a great power ally remains stuck in the ‘Gallipoli’ movie.

Anzac narrative must not get stuck in ‘Gallipoli’ victimology

The era of geopolitical uncertainty demands a mature reckoning with our alliance obligations and our own responsibilities.

November 2024

We have been commerating WW1 at events like this dawn service at Melbourne’s Shrine of Rememberance for more than a century yet this is still more to learn.

On Remembrance Day: new ways to understand an old war

Scholarship on the Great War extends far beyond the traditional focus on heroic but doomed Anzacs.

July 2024

We believe there’s been a creeping commercialism of Anzac Day … to the detriment of the importance of the day”: NSW Premier Chris Minns.

Anzac Day shopping ban restricts choice, retailers say

Retail trade will be banned on Anzac Day in NSW, giving the state some of the nation’s most restrictive rules in a move to counter “creeping commercialism”.

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April 2024

The Anzac Day dawn service at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne on Thursday.

Why young people embrace the emotion of Anzac Day

It’s 109 years since Australian and New Zealand soldiers climbed the steep, craggy hills at Gallipoli, but the day still has a unique hold on the nation’s soul and imagination.

NSW State RSL president Mick Bainbridge during the ANZAC day dawn service in Martin Place.

Thousands join Anzac services as nation seeks to heal

Anzac Day was labelled a chance for Sydney to come together and heal after a series of terrifying knife attacks.

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Anthony Albanese and James Marape Isurava memorial site during Dawn Services on Thursday.

PM pays tribute to ‘great artery of suffering’ on the Kokoda Track

After two days climbing through Papua New Guinea’s mountains, Anthony Albanese and James Marape marked the dawn service at the Isurava battlefield memorial.

Anthony Albanese received a rapturous traditional welcome from remote highland villagers on Wednesday.

‘Decolonising’ Anzac Day’s revival

The day offers a welcome counterpoint in an age of fragmenting identity politics in which it is becoming more difficult to find agreement about Australia’s national identity.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Papua New Guinean counterpart James Marape walk the Kokoda Track ahead of ANZAC Day.

‘Extraordinary sacrifice’: Albanese, Marape end historic Kokoda trek

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the Kokoda Track hike with his PNG counterpart James Marape gave him an appreciation of the sacrifices made by WWII soldiers.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese arrives at the start of the Kokoda Track on Tuesday.

‘You’re the chief now’: Crowds greet Albanese at start of Kokoda Track

Long-time residents of Papua New Guinea said it was the most lavish welcome an Australian leader had received since Paul Keating in 1992.

A heavy police presence at the scene of a stabbing at a church in Wakeley.

Why Anzac Day’s soft power is so important to social cohesion

Any potential adversary knows that a low-risk way to wound a diverse, multicultural society is to pick it apart until it turns against itself.

Anthony Albanese and James Marape will walk parts of the Kokoda Track together this week.

China rebuff in PM’s Anzac Day PNG push

Stronger ties with Australia’s northern neighbour will help promote Pacific stability and freedom, the prime minister says.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his PNG counterpart James Marape.

Albanese to visit the Kokoda Track for Anzac Day

The prime minister and his PNG counterpart James Marape are expected to attend a dawn service at Isurava on April 25.

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