Anzac Day
Veterans charity sells Brisbane HQ after $1.4 million slump in donations
Veterans charity Legacy Queensland has been forced to sell its Brisbane headquarters because the COVID-19 pandemic stopped people donating money to the group. Now it needs $4 million to help shift.
- by Tony Moore
Latest
Labor criticises Home Affairs boss’ ‘drums of war’ Anzac Day message
Labor’s foreign affairs spokeswoman, Penny Wong, says the language used on national security matters should be “sober and it should be cautious”.
- by Anthony Galloway
Opinion
Defence
Defend Australia first: why John Curtin might salute Peter Dutton
Defence Minister Peter Dutton has indicated an important shift in Australia’s defence posture.
- by Peter FitzSimons
LETTERS
Letters
Those who protected us deserve greater respect
Age readers discuss the contrast in crowd limits for Sunday’s Anzac Day dawn service and the Anzac Day football game at the MCG.
Editorial
History
Action needed before important Australian archives turn to dust or jelly
Precious paper and celluloid records of extraordinary and controversial moments in our nation’s history will literally rot away unless something is done.
- The Age's View
As it happened AFL 2021: Parish stars as Dons beat Pies; Hawks comeback over Crows; Power thump Saints
Anzac Day AFL Sunday opens with Hawthorn versus Adelaide before rivals Essendon and Collingwood face-off at the MCG and Port Adelaide and St Kilda finish the round in Adelaide.
- by Roy Ward
Crowds return for Anzac Day service, but some diggers locked out by fence
Jay and Alex both served in East Timor and Iraq, but only one was able to get tickets to the Anzac Day dawn service. They stood separately but together, on either side of a wire fence erected around the event.
- by Simone Fox Koob and Ashleigh McMillan
Anzac Day: Queensland Governor pays tribute to RAAF in its 100th year
Paul de Jersey also urged Australians to think about troops returning from Australia’s longest war, Afghanistan, while crowds turn out to cheer our servicemen and women.
- by Tony Moore
‘For goodness’ sake, go’: spirit lives on in Anzac Day march
Crocheted or knitted blankets are positioned and wheelchair escorts in place. This is the spirit of the 4002 marchers who filled Elizabeth Street on a rather chilly morning on Sunday.
- by Tim Barlass
Analysis
World War I
Disgraced Peter Handcock deserves no war memorial honour
Lieutenant Peter Handcock is a convicted war criminal who murdered without mercy and his name does not belong on any war memorial honour roll.
- by Peter FitzSimons
The first line of defence helping veterans get their life back
After devoting three decades to military service, David struggled to settle back into civilian life. Then, a powerful bond with an unlikely comrade changed his life.
- by Marta Pascual Juanola