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RSL president Major General Greg Melick speaks at Rememberance Day.

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Major General Greg Melick used his Remembrance Day address to warn that armed forces personnel are being let down by inadequate defence spending.

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Raz Mohammed, an Afghan interpreter, alongside ex-ADF investigator Peter Ensor outside the Dandenong RSL, where they were reunited last month.

The Australian investigator, the Afghan interpreter, and the chance dinner in Dandenong

Peter Ensor thinks about his fallen comrades on Remembrance Day, and he always wondered what happened to Raz Mohammad.

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Prince George (second left) sits in the royal box at the Royal Albert Hall beside his mother, Catherine, Princess of Wales, King Charles and Queen Camilla, Edward, Duke of Edinburgh (back, right) Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh and Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester.

Prince George joins King and Queen for Festival of Remembrance

In a rare public appearance, the young royal heir joined his mother and the King and Queen at an event marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.

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Ohio-class submarines are the largest ever built for the US, and now one is docked in Brisbane.

Silence is victory: US super-sub slips into Brisbane

The nuclear-powered USS Ohio is in Brisbane for the first time, and for its crew, silence is not only a motto, it’s a way of life.

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The Shrine or Remembrance has signed a contract with catering company Peter Rowland Group to host commercial events there.

‘Trampling over the dead’: Shrine to host events under controversial commercial deal

A controversial new agreement will bring commercial events to Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance for the first time. And many veterans are not happy.

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Pupil-free days help teachers and students

Pupil-free days help foster better outcomes

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Dr John Miller, 94, was just 4 years old when his father and godfather planted the seedling of an elm that now stands grandly at the Shrine of Remembrance.

After watching his veteran father plant it 90 years ago, John returns to a great elm at the Shrine

Dr John Miller will be a guest of honour at the Shrine of Remembrance on Monday. He attended the inauguration of the Shrine on November 11, 1934.

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