Anzac Day commemorations and local service notices
Australia and New Zealand observed Anzac Day on April 25 with dawn services held in cities and towns across both countries, including major memorials in Sydney and Wellington. Local councils published guides and notices listing dawn-service start times, street closures, parking restrictions and public transport changes. Councils also mapped event locations and alternative viewing points to help attendees plan travel and arrivals. The ceremonies commemorate the 1915 Gallipoli landings and honour military service, and these local arrangements aim to manage early-morning crowds so families and veterans can attend safely.
ANZAC Day always feels like a reminder that neither fucking side in war knows what they're doing, the people in charge tend to be stupid as fuck, and the end result is thousands of deaths but never of the people responsible for those deaths happening.
CEO Johnny Cans54And, as always, fuck Winston Churchill.
Elouise Quigan - Haslett Street Books 15Beyond the aus / nz Anzac stories - I still remember the first time I watched the last ep of Blackadder goes forth and being utterly floored, even as a teenager. I have little people now and ANZAC Day, wars past and present are so hard to explain - why were so many people sent to just… die?!
Dr Alma Rae6I recently read Barbara Tuchman's audiobook The Guns of August, a very detailed account of the first month of WWI. The sheer incompetence, gamesmanship and clashing egos of the various military leaders, brilliantly read with the ironies on full display, was a revelation.
Terry Baucher5Seconded. Coming from Britain ANZAC Day has always felt more genuinely about loss than the UK's Remembrance Sunday which seems to have become very much more jingoistic in recent years. My ANZAC connection - my great-uncle Eddie was on board the River Clyde on ANZAC Day - he survived.
Earl Mardle - Death Cult Govt - Squalour, poverty & Disease5The perennial question, "what did you do in the war daddy?" The perennial answer, "I died, like everyone else"
saskia-19754It amazes me that in the modern age we have no solution for two governments having a disagreement other than “you send us some of your young men, we’ll send ours, and the one with the most survivors wins.”
Katya4Currently rereading War and Peace and all the war sections are this over and over again
Paul van Brakel2The ultimate transferral of the cost of fascism onto others...
I did not have Anzac Day (ironically) Wars on this years Bingo Card. "Nothing says supporting ANZAC's like getting up early to boo 'welcome to country' and cheer on an accused murderer." 🤬 #AusPol
Kerrie B2I think I’m better staying at home and just quietly reflecting at dawn.
Cultural Champ2They’re really trying to wedge the shit out of ANZAC Day. Last year’s stunt was disgusting. Looks like they’re going for lower & lower this year. #auspol
🍎 Lisa Brassington2I just heard the boos, during the Sydney pre-dawn service. It was very awful to hear.
