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Anzac Day 2009
Section 1: Speeches
‘Possible speech
notes: the significance of ANZAC’,
prepared by the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Security Section, Parliamentary
Library, April 2008 (reviewed April 2009).
Previous Anzac
Day speeches
25 April 2008
—Televised
Anzac Day message by His
Excellency Major General Michael Jeffrey, Governor-General.
25 April 2008—Address
by the Prime Minister, the Hon. Kevin Rudd MP, at the Anzac Day National
Ceremony at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.
25 April 2008—Address
by the Minister for Defence, the Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon MP at the Dawn
Service, Anzac Commemorative Site, Gallipoli, Turkey.
25 April 2008—Address
by the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, the Hon. Alan Griffin, at the Anzac Day Dawn Service, Villers-Bretonneux,
France.
90th anniversary
of the Anzac landings—25 April 2005
- message for Anzac Day and address at the Anzac Day Dawn Service, Gallipoli, by the Prime Minister the
Hon. John Howard.
- a message from the Governor-General.
- address delivered by the Anglican Bishop to the Defence Force, Anzac Day Dawn
Service, Australian War Memorial, Canberra.
- speech by the New Zealand High Commissioner, Her Excellency, Mrs Kate Lackey,
at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra .
Tomb of the
unknown soldier
11 November 1993—transcript
of the speech made by the Prime Minister, the Hon. Paul Keating at the
tomb of the unknown soldier on the occasion of the Funeral
of the Unknown Australian Soldier, Remembrance Day.
In ‘The
unknown Australian soldier’,
Ashley Ekins
discusses the symbolic significance of the return of the
remains of an unknown Australian soldier. (Wartime, no. 25, January
2004, pp. 11-13)
Ataturk's words
of comfort
In 1934 the Turkish President
and Gallipoli veteran,
Kemal Ataturk,
wrote a tribute to the Anzacs killed at Gallipoli:
Those heroes that shed their
blood and lost their lives ... You are now lying in the soil of a friendly
country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the
Johnnies and the Mehmets to us. Where they lie side by side now here
in this country of ours ... You mothers, who sent their sons from faraway
countries wipe away the tears. Your sons are now lying in our bosom
and are in peace after having lost their lives on this land. They have
become our sons as well.
This inscription appears on
the Kemal Ataturk Memorial,
Anzac Parade,
Canberra.
The Ode
In 1914 English poet,
Laurence Binyon,
wrote a poem called For the fallen, the fourth stanza
of which became the Returned Services League's 'Ode' and is spoken at
Anzac Day ceremonies:
They shall grow not old, as
we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
The Ode concludes with the additional
words 'Lest we forget'.
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