Anzac Day 2024 LIVE updates: Dawn services, two-up across the nation as Australia remembers its Diggers
Quee’s husband served in the Australian Defence Force for 27 years, having signed up fresh off the boat from England as a young man.
Betty Quee 87, whose husband Brian Quee was one of the first soldiers to arrive in Vietnam in 1962 during the ANZAC Day march. Credit: Chris Hopkins
PNG Prime Minister James Marape waves for the camera as he and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese depart the Kokoda Track. Credit: Dominic Lorrimer
Defence Minister Richard Marles says commemorating Anzac Day at Gallipoli is a once-in-a-lifetime experience which he has found “deeply poignant” so far.
Speaking on Melbourne radio station 3AW, Marles said he arrived in Gallipoli yesterday and attended services for the UK, Ireland, France and Turkey.
“We’ve run into a lot of Australians who are here for this and there’s a sense of pilgrimage. I mean this, I think for everyone coming here, most for the first time, there’s a sense that you are doing something that is a once-in-a-lifetime experience which goes to the heart of our nation,” he said.
“I was at the Turkish event yesterday, which is a huge event for them. They will be here at the dawn service this morning and … I think we are commemorating something much bigger than the particular outcome of any given battle.”
