Melbourne’s dawn service at the Shrine of Remembrance concluded at 6.30am, with a large crowd mostly on their feet to get a spot on the King’s Domain.Crowds outside Melbourne’s Shrine.While the prime minister is attending the dawn service at the Isurava memorial on the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea, Defence Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles is in Gallipoli, Turkey to honour the day.
When we think about the Gallipoli campaign, we think of mateship and sacrifice, and we admire the extraordinary actions of the Anzac soldiers. In Canberra, Finance Minister Katy Gallagher is representing the government at the Australian War Memorial’s newly renovated parade ground, which can hold up to 4400 people.The 520 seats at the George Street approach were quietly taken with standing room not only along both sides of the cenotaph but along the entire length of Martin Place in one of the largest crowds in recent years.Kate Geraghty
All lights were turned off and the two bronze statues of a soldier and sailor on the cenotaph floodlit as RSL NSW President Mick Bainbridge read the Ode ending with the iconic words ‘At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them’.After a two-day pilgrimage along a portion of the Kokoda Trail, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has arrived at his destination, the Isurava Memorial, where an Anzac Day dawn service is currently being observed.
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