Stuart Robert (Fadden, Liberal Party, Minister for Veterans’ Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Let me thank the member for Robertson for her question and note the 2,600 veterans and their families she has in her electorate. And I thank her for her work in representing them.

There is a serious point to this week in terms of Remembrance Day. I know people from right across this country, including in this House, will pause this Wednesday at 11 o'clock, symbolising when the guns went silent on the Western Front at 11 am on the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It is a serious time for us to stop and reflect. It is 100 years since the Anzac landing; 100 years since the Anzac corps was established. Of course many would go fighting at Gallipoli and many more on the Western Front.

For the next four years there will be a range of commemoration activities right across the country, and the government will continue to progressively roll out those activities overseas. Those interested can go to Anzaccentenary.gov.au to see the domestic agenda for what is happening in terms of commemoration.

But as all members know the heart and soul of commemoration in this country at Anzac Day and Remembrance Day is what happens in electorates and what happens in communities. It is wonderful—

Mr Mitchell interjecting—

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