Deputy prime minister’s special Anzac Day reflection

‘We don’t Own Anzac Day. You do’

Days before Anzac Day, Quadrant contributor and author Peter O'Brien delivered the following address to an assembly of Kiama high-schoolers [fusion_dropcap boxed="no" boxed_radius="" class="" id="" color="" hue="" saturation="" lightness="" alpha="" text_color=""]T[/fusion_dropcap]hank you for the invitation to speak at your Anzac Day commemoration.  And more importantly to thank you for conducting this commemoration. Anzac Day is one of the mos…

'This is a man I knew': Defence minister recalls walking in footsteps of veteran grandfather

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Richard Marles has described the moment he walked in the footsteps of his grandfather, Percy Pearce, who fought in the Battle of Pozières in 1916.Marles told Today about a trip he took to Pozières in 2022, when a local historian took him to the site where his grandfather won his Military Cross for exemplary gallantry."At first I thought it was a joke... but as he started talking through the battle…

Deputy prime minister’s special Anzac Day reflection

Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles reflects on his grandfather Percy Pearce, who fought in the Battle of Pozières in 1916.

Cartoon / An Anzac Day Dose of Dorin

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