Anzac Day 2011
Section 1: Speeches
‘Possible speech
notes: the significance of ANZAC’,
prepared by the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Security Section, Parliamentary
Library, April 2008 (reviewed and updated in April 2010). (Senators and Members only)
Previous Anzac
Day speeches
25 April 2010—Anzac Day commemoration address by Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce AC at the Anzac Day Gallipoli dawn service on the Gallipoli Peninsula.
25 April 2010—Lone Pine Service address at the Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli by Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce AC.
25 April 2010—Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on the commemoration of the Centenary of Anzac at the Anzac Day National Ceremony at the Australian War Memorial.
25 April 2010— Speech at Korean War Memorial in Washington by the Hon. Wayne Swan MP.
25 April 2010— Speech at the Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France by the Hon. Stephen Smith MP.
The end of an era
2010 also marked the first Anzac Day with no surviving World War I veterans.
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
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, 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'.
Speeches for community use
The Australian Army provides a selection of Anzac Day speeches suitable for use on different occasions and for varying audiences, while a calendar of day by day anniversaries in the lead-up to Anzac Day is also available.
For
copyright reasons some linked items are only available to members of Parliament.
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