Anzac Day

While ANZAC Day was initially a commemoration of Gallipoli landing in 1915, today it's a day to pay respect to all Australians who have served and died in ...

Railways and North Albany are bracing for their traditional Anzac Day clash that welcomes the long-awaited return of the 2024 Great Southern Football ...

6.00am Dawn Service at Shepparton War Memorial, Cnr of Welsford and Fryers St. Followed by gunfire breakfast at Shepparton RSL.

Brendon Baines served for New Zealand in Afghanistan and East Timor in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Years later, he was still dealing with the physical and ...

Modern Australia has been attacked once, in World War II, and consequently Australian soldiers have rarely fought in defence of Australia. Most of the ″⁣fallen″ ...

Our leaders weave grand, often poetic, narratives around death on the battlefield – and then tragically we let it happen again.

New Zealanders are gathering to remember those who gave their lives in combat. Follow along with RNZ's live blog.

From dawn services across New Zealand to Anzac biscuits in South Sudan, serving New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) personnel will be commemorating Anzac Day ...

Melbourne: Shrine of Remembrance. Perth: State War Memorial; St George Terrace. Sydney: Cenotaph, Martin Place. Tight security, including road closures, is ...

Anzac Day marks the first big military action by Australian and New Zealand soldiers in Gallipoli in 1915.

The Anzac Day broadcast, at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park in Wellington, marks the anniversary of the landing of New Zealand and Australian soldiers ...

It is 109 years since the Anzacs landed at Gallipoli. OPINION. Rere ana nga roimata o Hine tērā te pae o Te Riri. Huihuia mai tātau katoa tēnei te pae o ...

From capital city cenotaphs to local memorials, thousands braved the cold to honour the memory of all Austr...

We honour the courage, endurance, mateship and sacrifice of the Anzacs. ​The Chief of the Defence Force, General Angus Campbell, AO DSC, attended Commemorative ...

Dame Cindy Kiro will speak to crowds at the Pukeahu War Memorial Park in central Pōneke/Wellington.

This year marks 109 years since Australian and New Zealand soldiers landed on the Turkish coastline at Gallipoli during World War I. Their eight-month battle ...

In Australia, the national Anzac Day Dawn Service is being held in the Sculpture Garden of the Australian War Memorial, while the RSL Veterans' March is, for ...

World War II veteran Colin Wagener joined the military with three friends in 1938. He returned to Australia in 1945 after serving in Borneo, but has never ...

Thousands have gathered at dawn ceremonies around the country to commemorate Kiwis who have given their service - and for many, their lives - in military...

When a Whanganui flight sergeant was shot into the sea, an Australian soldier wrote to his mother of his "great courage and resolution".

Vice Admiral David Johnston AC RAN: It is a privilege to stand with you on this Anzac Day, together with the members of the Australian Defence Force who ...

AFP deputy commissioner says there is 'no immediate danger' to the public despite yesterday's anti-terror raids in Sydney. Follow the day's news live.

The day offers a welcome counterpoint in an age of fragmenting identity politics in which it is becoming more difficult to find agreement about Australia's ...

Royal Australian Air Force veteran Brett West is among those leading the more than 10,000 people who are expected to take part. The Indigenous Australian ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has paid tribute to those who served their country. It's the 109th anniversary of the landings in Gallopoli. Australians old and ...

In true Anzac spirit, New Plymouth RSA president and veteran Graham Chard could be heard rallying the troops. "Kia ora whānau, do we have any muscle men out ...

Emeritus Professor Michael Atherton shares the remarkable efforts of troops to get pianos to the front during World War II.

Albanese trekked to the memorial in the town of Isurava over two days with Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape. Isurava was the site of a major battle ...

Anzac Day originally commemorated a battle on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey during World War One. At dawn on April 25, 1915, thousands of troops from the ...

Eleven decades on from the horrors of Gallipoli, I am yet to see a thunderous piece of writing saying what needs to be said.

Main image: War veteran John Murphy poses for a photograph at the Shrine of Remembrance during the dawn service in Melbourne. Photograph: Diego Fedele/Getty ...

109th anniversary of the arrival of Anzac soldiers for the Gallipoli campaign is commemorated with a dawn service in Canakkale, joined by hundreds from ...