ANZAC Day Origins

Anzac Day 2018 at Windsor

Anzac ‘spirit burns brighter, year by year’ – Trevor Evans MP THE Hon. Tim Nicholls MP, Member for Clayfield; Cr David McLachlan, Councillor for Hamilton Ward; Cr Andrew Wines, Councillor for Enoggera Ward; Distinguished guests, Returned veterans, Service Men and Women, Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, May I acknowledge the traditional owners, the Turrbal people, and pay my respects to their elders past and present. Thank you to Uncle Joe Kirk for your welcome to country. Read more…

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Congrats Ross!

OUR GRIFFITH AUSTRALIA DAY AWARD WINNER AT a well attended public ceremony staged this afternoon at Souths Leagues Club, West End, Canon Garland Memorial Society Incorporated Vice-President, Ross Hielscher, was presented with a Griffith Australia Day Award by the Federal Member for Griffith, Ms Terri Butler MP. Here is what the citation of the honour said: Ross is a founding member, vice-president and project manager of the Canon Garland Memorial Society. Ross established the society to Read more…

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Congrats Constantine!

The Australia Day Achievement Award citation for Constantine (Con) Drozdovskii Born to a Russian father and Greek mother, Con moved to Brisbane as a child and has now become a spokesperson for the Ethnic Russian Community. Proud of his Russian Orthodox Christian faith, over the past 50 years Con has become a dynamic spokesperson for community cohesion. Con has encouraged Russian-Australians to immerse themselves in the rich cultural, artistic and musical life of Brisbane through Read more…

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Anzac Day 2017 at Windsor

[ Every year since Brisbane’s Windsor War Memorial was officially unveiled on Anzac Day 1925, a kaleidoscope of State Governors, community and civic leaders, military representatives, Ministers of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, Members of the House of Representatives, Senators and Ministers of the Commonwealth Government have taken their turn at delivering an Anzac Day oration. On the morning of Tuesday, 25 April 2017, Brisbane City Council’s Hamilton Ward incumbent, Councillor David McLachlan, was tasked by the Read more…

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Remembrance Day Family Concert

A remembrance and a celebration – towards a review By CON DROZDOVSKII of Canon Garland Memorial Society Incorporated IF you missed last night’s outdoor concert at Kangaroo Point Cliffs Park – preferring instead to sit in front of the idiot box – then you missed something truly beautiful and unique. Imagine, if you will, a perfect evening with a light, warm breeze. Imagine too, a view of a beautiful historic church surrounded by trees, set against Read more…

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Senator Moore on Garland

SENATE ADJOURNMENT DEBATE: Senator for Queensland, Senator Claire Moore. 21:14h, Tuesday, 19 April 2016 Senator MOORE (Queensland) (21:14): This Friday, at Kangaroo Point Cliffs Park in Brisbane, there will be a ceremony to honour the work of Canon David John Garland, an energetic Dublin-born Orangeman who became known as “the architect of ANZAC Day”. The 25th of April, which is now such an important part of Australian life, was shaped by an extraordinary energetic, public-spirited and Read more…

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