Remembrance Days

ANZAC Day - 25th April - is probably Australia's most important national occasion. It marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War. ANZAC stands for Australian Read More..

The ANZAC tradition - the ideals of courage, endurance and mateship that are still relevant today was established on 25 April 1915 when the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula. ANZAC Day begins with the Dawn Ser Read more..

Sydney's first Dawn Service originated when five members of the Australian Legion of Ex-Service Clubs, walking home after an Anzac eve function in the early hours of Anzac Day 1927, saw an elderly woman laying a sheath of flowers on the Cenotaph in M Read more..

White Wreath Day - In Remembrance of all Victims of Suicide - is held Nationally on May 29 each year. The primary focus of the White Wreath Association is to raise funds in order to establish Care Facilities (Safehavens) to aid those suffering men Read more..