“Periodic vigilance will protect us against new generations of lords and masters who exploit national myths to lure us into enterprises born in timidity and corrosive mateship.” -Andrew Hamilton, ...

Each year on the 25th of April, Australians and New Zealanders commemorate ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) Day to recognize the sacrifices that Australians and New Zealand servicemen ...

Professor Peter Stanley of UNSW, Canberra, worked at the Australian War Memorial 1980-2007 and became its Principal Historian. His latest book is Lost Boys of Anzac. On Anzac Day, Australia remembers ...

Official Anzac Day ceremonies held on Wednesday marked a further stage in the Gillard Labor government’s promotion of militarism and war. Anzac Day, April 25, is an annual public holiday in Australia, ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Thousands gathered across Australia and New Zealand on Thursday at Anzac Day services to commemorate those who fought and died in major conflicts in the nations' history. Anzac Day ...

Anzac Day commemorates a World War I mission in which the Anzacs assisted the Allied Powers in an attempt to gain new fronts and a valuable trade route to their Russian allies. On April 25, 1915, the ...

The Princess Royal is to remember the fallen from the UK and Ireland as well as Australia, New Zealand, France and Turkey during a visit to Gallipoli. More than 100,000 troops died in an ill-fated ...

The Gallipoli exhibition at Sydney's Anzac Memorial, marking 110 years since the landing on the peninsula in what is now Turkiye, features artifacts like a Bible that saved a soldier's life and a ...

Growing up in sydney in the 1970s and 1980s, i saw Anzac Day simply as the day when the shops weren’t open and we’d turn on the TV and watch the parade. It was about seeing a lot of old men on ...

Thousands of young Australians will gather at Gallipoli this Anzac Day. Our TV screens will fill with faces in the cold light of early dawn, a tear trickling down the cheek in sadness that so many ...

Canberra, Australia — Hundreds of thousands of Australians gathered at dawn services and veterans' street marches across the nation on Tuesday to commemorate their war dead on Anzac Day as recent ...