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Emma Kearney - The Simpson Prize
THE
Simpson
PRIZE
A COMPETITION FOR
YEAR 9 AND 10 STUDENTS
2012 Runner-up
Queensland
Emma Kearney
St Andrew’s Catholic College
Why has Australian commemoration
of ANZAC Day increased in
popularity in recent years?
Emma Kearney
St Andrew’s Catholic College
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AUDIO-VISUAL EXPLANATION
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here are various reasons as to why the commemoration of Anzac Day has inreased in popularity
Anzac Day held within our history and therefore its integral part in our future. Yet today, we
see those cancerns have been dismissed. As recent as 2010, a record crowd gathered at Kings Park for
Western Australia’s biggest ever Anzac Day dawn service, with many young children and their families
attending.
Although the Gallipoli assault was ultimately a failure, Australia had created a legend, that grew to
encompass the very core of Australia’s belief; integrity, loyalty, bravery, courage and heroism. This
legend will continue to shape Australia’s identity. lt is what Australians identify with at Anzac Day
services. We recognise the impact that a legend can have.
Each year we come together to re-identify. We celebrate the legend born by the stockmen and farmers
identify with the attributes associated with the Anzac legend. To bring it from a place once only
recognised as a ‘sunburnt country’ to multi-cultural society built upon the foundations of the Anzac
Legend, the legend that was established 96 years ago in the trenches and on the shores of Gallipoli.
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Australians have developed a sense of place and occasion without having even been there. New
evidence has also been broughtto light, and historians play a crucialrole in the retelling of the sheer
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as we were back in the 1960s. We seek to make up our own mind, to take all the evidence into account
and then decide. The sheer amount of numbers seen in recent years concludes that Australians have
decided that Anzac Day is an important day in our nation’s history.
Anzac Day has seen ever increasing crowds over 95 years of commernoration, the day continues to
resonate deeply with our nation’s identity, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
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“Why has Australian commemoration of ANZAC Day increased in popularity in recent years?”
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and women have made for their country. We celebrate a legend 96 years in the making, the legend tells
of heroism, comradely, larrikinism, bravery and courage in the face of adversity. These attributes were
displayed in a place now known as Anzac Cove. Over recent years more and more Australians have
pilgrimed to the dawn service on this historical and sacred site. Also throughout Australia, an increase
has been seen in the attendance levels of pommemorative services.
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been remembered over the past 95 years and the public’s perception towards the observance of this day
both during the Vietnam War and after the release of the movie ‘Gallipoli’.
Australia had only been federated 14 years earlier, hence as a nation it was important to prove
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and New Zealand Army Corps, referred to on the peninsula simply as the Anzacs. Various marches were
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streets, recalling those mates who had not returned. Australians on the fronts overseas also celebrated
this day. Over 2,000 Australian and New Zealand soldiers marched through the streets of London,
commanding respect from their allies. One such London newspaper labelling them “The Knights of
Gallipoli.” The government however, did not respect this sacred day and instead used Anzac Day during the remaining years of the war - to enlist more troops to join the campaign by appealing to their
patriotic side.
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with one’s mates, destined for greatness and the possibility of becoming a legend. No, all romantic
views of war were lost when faced with the slaughter of starry eyed boys, who’s fathers would never
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identity and his loss of innocence through his enlistment in the army. The last scene in the movie is
truly the epitome of bravery and courage. This movie captured the imagination of the audience and
retuned soldiers were once more looked to by society as heroes, particularly by the younger generation,
renewing the hope that Anzac Day would last.
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because Australians have developed a sense of place and occasion without having even been there.
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history and therefore its integral part in our future. Yet today, we see those concerns eroded as schools
have moving Anzac Day services and grandchildren wear their pop’s medal proudly on their chest. They
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Although the Gallipoli assault was ultimately a failure, Australia established something there, they had
created a legend. A legend that grew to encompass the very core of Australia’s belief; integrity, loyalty,
bravery, courage and heroism. And this legend has evolved like all legends do and will continue to shape
Australia’s identity. We are forever building upon the Anzac legend. lt’s what Australians identify with
at Anzac Day services. We recognise the need to be part of something bigger and the impact that a
legend can have.
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Anzac day has seen ever increasing crowds over 95 years of commemoration, the day continues to
resonate deeply with our nations identity, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Despite
whether you agree or disagree with the politics of the Vietnam war, the incompetence of the Gallipoli
campaign, or whether ‘Gallipoli’ is an all time favourite movie: each year on April 25th a nation will pay
homage to the men and woman who laid down their lives, serving our country, protecting our ideals
and freedoms. This is why ‘At the going down of the sun, and in the morning we will remember them’.
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