❓ The Premier outlines initiatives to educate young Western Australians about Anzac history, including memorial restoration, school programs, and student trips to significant sites.
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I ask the Premier, with the celebration of Anzac Day looming, and, indeed, having myself already attended this week three Anzac Day ceremonies in schools, whether he can advise the House of the initiatives the Government is taking to educate young Western Australians about our Anzac history and heritage? Dr G.I. GALLOP
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I thank the member for Riverton very much for the question. Nearly all of our First World War veterans have died, and most of our Second World War veterans are now in their 80s and 90s. Therefore, if we are to keep the Anzac flame alive, it is important that certain initiatives be put in place so that this great tradition will carry on into the future. Last year I set up the Anzac Day Review Committee. One of the members of that committee is the WA Branch President of the Returned and Services League, Mr Bill Gaynor, and it is chaired by my parliamentary secretary, the member for Rockingham. The idea behind the committee is to make sure that the Anzac heritage stays alive into the future. A number of initiatives are under way. The first is a program to rebuild the crumbling state war memorial in Kings Park. The second is a $250 000 small grants program to repair war memorials right around Western Australia. The third is an adopt a memorial program to encourage schools and community groups to adopt memorials, undertake research about them and keep them properly maintained. I thank the Minister for Education and Training for raising the issue of Anzac Day within our school system. We have moved to make the celebration of Anzac day compulsory in all our state schools. We have established a new memorial register and web site to record all the memorials and honour boards around Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett: Then why not support the flag? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I do support the flag. A statue of our great wartime leader John Curtin will be constructed in Fremantle to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of his death and the end of the Second World War. We have also introduced the Anzac Day Amendment Bill 2003, which we want to take through the Parliament. In addition, each year we will be taking 12 Western Australian students, along with the member for Murdoch, to a significant Anzac Day site throughout the world. This year we will be going to France and London. These 12 students have been selected from state and non-government schools all over Western Australia, with half of them from country Western Australia. There was a very good selection process, and I am told that the quality of the students who went through that process leads us to conclude that we can be very confident that our young people will carry the Anzac tradition with great honour in our State today. We will be visiting some of the battlefield sites in France, and we will also be attending the Anzac Day dawn service at the new Australian war memorial at Hyde Park in London. This is a great opportunity for these young Western Australians to learn first-hand about our history, and, upon their return, they will be expected to speak to their school and their neighbouring schools about what they have learnt, and encourage other students to take up the Anzac story. We are very proud of what we have been doing to make sure that the Anzac flame stays alive into the future. I thank all the members of Parliament who are encouraging their schools to become involved in the adopt a memorial program. It is a good program. It will be very interesting for the students, and, more significantly, they will learn about aspects of our history that are very important, such as mateship, resilience and making sure that we take that extra step in doing what we have been asked to do in our communities. Those issues are all part of what we regard as the Anzac tradition. We will make sure that the tradition continues in this nation for another hundred years.
Dr G.I. GALLOP replied : I thank the member for Riverton very much for the question. Nearly all of our First World War veterans have died, and most of our Second World War veterans are now in their 80s and 90s. Therefore, if we are to keep the Anzac flame alive, it is important that certain initiatives be put in place so that this great tradition will carry on into the future. Last year I set up the Anzac Day Review Committee. One of the members of that committee is the WA Branch President of the Returned and Services League, Mr Bill Gaynor, and it is chaired by my parliamentary secretary, the member for Rockingham. The idea behind the committee is to make sure that the Anzac heritage stays alive into the future. A number of initiatives are under way. The first is a program to rebuild the crumbling state war memorial in Kings Park. The second is a $250 000 small grants program to repair war memorials right around Western Australia. The third is an adopt a memorial program to encourage schools and community groups to adopt memorials, undertake research about them and keep them properly maintained. I thank the Minister for Education and Training for raising the issue of Anzac Day within our school system. We have moved to make the celebration of Anzac day compulsory in all our state schools. We have established a new memorial register and web site to record all the memorials and honour boards around Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett: Then why not support the flag? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I do support the flag. A statue of our great wartime leader John Curtin will be constructed in Fremantle to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of his death and the end of the Second World War. We have also introduced the Anzac Day Amendment Bill 2003, which we want to take through the Parliament. In addition, each year we will be taking 12 Western Australian students, along with the member for Murdoch, to a significant Anzac Day site throughout the world. This year we will be going to France and London. These 12 students have been selected from state and non-government schools all over Western Australia, with half of them from country Western Australia. There was a very good selection process, and I am told that the quality of the students who went through that process leads us to conclude that we can be very confident that our young people will carry the Anzac tradition with great honour in our State today. We will be visiting some of the battlefield sites in France, and we will also be attending the Anzac Day dawn service at the new Australian war memorial at Hyde Park in London. This is a great opportunity for these young Western Australians to learn first-hand about our history, and, upon their return, they will be expected to speak to their school and their neighbouring schools about what they have learnt, and encourage other students to take up the Anzac story. We are very proud of what we have been doing to make sure that the Anzac flame stays alive into the future. I thank all the members of Parliament who are encouraging their schools to become involved in the adopt a memorial program. It is a good program. It will be very interesting for the students, and, more significantly, they will learn about aspects of our history that are very important, such as mateship, resilience and making sure that we take that extra step in doing what we have been asked to do in our communities. Those issues are all part of what we regard as the Anzac tradition. We will make sure that the tradition continues in this nation for another hundred years.
I thank the member for Riverton very much for the question. Nearly all of our First World War veterans have died, and most of our Second World War veterans are now in their 80s and 90s. Therefore, if we are to keep the Anzac flame alive, it is important that certain initiatives be put in place so that this great tradition will carry on into the future. Last year I set up the Anzac Day Review Committee. One of the members of that committee is the WA Branch President of the Returned and Services League, Mr Bill Gaynor, and it is chaired by my parliamentary secretary, the member for Rockingham. The idea behind the committee is to make sure that the Anzac heritage stays alive into the future. A number of initiatives are under way. The first is a program to rebuild the crumbling state war memorial in Kings Park. The second is a $250 000 small grants program to repair war memorials right around Western Australia. The third is an adopt a memorial program to encourage schools and community groups to adopt memorials, undertake research about them and keep them properly maintained. I thank the Minister for Education and Training for raising the issue of Anzac Day within our school system. We have moved to make the celebration of Anzac day compulsory in all our state schools. We have established a new memorial register and web site to record all the memorials and honour boards around Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett: Then why not support the flag? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I do support the flag. A statue of our great wartime leader John Curtin will be constructed in Fremantle to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of his death and the end of the Second World War. We have also introduced the Anzac Day Amendment Bill 2003, which we want to take through the Parliament. In addition, each year we will be taking 12 Western Australian students, along with the member for Murdoch, to a significant Anzac Day site throughout the world. This year we will be going to France and London. These 12 students have been selected from state and non-government schools all over Western Australia, with half of them from country Western Australia. There was a very good selection process, and I am told that the quality of the students who went through that process leads us to conclude that we can be very confident that our young people will carry the Anzac tradition with great honour in our State today. We will be visiting some of the battlefield sites in France, and we will also be attending the Anzac Day dawn service at the new Australian war memorial at Hyde Park in London. This is a great opportunity for these young Western Australians to learn first-hand about our history, and, upon their return, they will be expected to speak to their school and their neighbouring schools about what they have learnt, and encourage other students to take up the Anzac story. We are very proud of what we have been doing to make sure that the Anzac flame stays alive into the future. I thank all the members of Parliament who are encouraging their schools to become involved in the adopt a memorial program. It is a good program. It will be very interesting for the students, and, more significantly, they will learn about aspects of our history that are very important, such as mateship, resilience and making sure that we take that extra step in doing what we have been asked to do in our communities. Those issues are all part of what we regard as the Anzac tradition. We will make sure that the tradition continues in this nation for another hundred years.
A number of initiatives are under way. The first is a program to rebuild the crumbling state war memorial in Kings Park. The second is a $250 000 small grants program to repair war memorials right around Western Australia. The third is an adopt a memorial program to encourage schools and community groups to adopt memorials, undertake research about them and keep them properly maintained. I thank the Minister for Education and Training for raising the issue of Anzac Day within our school system. We have moved to make the celebration of Anzac day compulsory in all our state schools. We have established a new memorial register and web site to record all the memorials and honour boards around Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett: Then why not support the flag? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I do support the flag. A statue of our great wartime leader John Curtin will be constructed in Fremantle to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of his death and the end of the Second World War. We have also introduced the Anzac Day Amendment Bill 2003, which we want to take through the Parliament. In addition, each year we will be taking 12 Western Australian students, along with the member for Murdoch, to a significant Anzac Day site throughout the world. This year we will be going to France and London. These 12 students have been selected from state and non-government schools all over Western Australia, with half of them from country Western Australia. There was a very good selection process, and I am told that the quality of the students who went through that process leads us to conclude that we can be very confident that our young people will carry the Anzac tradition with great honour in our State today. We will be visiting some of the battlefield sites in France, and we will also be attending the Anzac Day dawn service at the new Australian war memorial at Hyde Park in London. This is a great opportunity for these young Western Australians to learn first-hand about our history, and, upon their return, they will be expected to speak to their school and their neighbouring schools about what they have learnt, and encourage other students to take up the Anzac story. We are very proud of what we have been doing to make sure that the Anzac flame stays alive into the future. I thank all the members of Parliament who are encouraging their schools to become involved in the adopt a memorial program. It is a good program. It will be very interesting for the students, and, more significantly, they will learn about aspects of our history that are very important, such as mateship, resilience and making sure that we take that extra step in doing what we have been asked to do in our communities. Those issues are all part of what we regard as the Anzac tradition. We will make sure that the tradition continues in this nation for another hundred years.
Mr C.J. Barnett: Then why not support the flag? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I do support the flag. A statue of our great wartime leader John Curtin will be constructed in Fremantle to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of his death and the end of the Second World War. We have also introduced the Anzac Day Amendment Bill 2003, which we want to take through the Parliament. In addition, each year we will be taking 12 Western Australian students, along with the member for Murdoch, to a significant Anzac Day site throughout the world. This year we will be going to France and London. These 12 students have been selected from state and non-government schools all over Western Australia, with half of them from country Western Australia. There was a very good selection process, and I am told that the quality of the students who went through that process leads us to conclude that we can be very confident that our young people will carry the Anzac tradition with great honour in our State today. We will be visiting some of the battlefield sites in France, and we will also be attending the Anzac Day dawn service at the new Australian war memorial at Hyde Park in London. This is a great opportunity for these young Western Australians to learn first-hand about our history, and, upon their return, they will be expected to speak to their school and their neighbouring schools about what they have learnt, and encourage other students to take up the Anzac story. We are very proud of what we have been doing to make sure that the Anzac flame stays alive into the future. I thank all the members of Parliament who are encouraging their schools to become involved in the adopt a memorial program. It is a good program. It will be very interesting for the students, and, more significantly, they will learn about aspects of our history that are very important, such as mateship, resilience and making sure that we take that extra step in doing what we have been asked to do in our communities. Those issues are all part of what we regard as the Anzac tradition. We will make sure that the tradition continues in this nation for another hundred years.
Dr G.I. GALLOP: I do support the flag. A statue of our great wartime leader John Curtin will be constructed in Fremantle to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of his death and the end of the Second World War. We have also introduced the Anzac Day Amendment Bill 2003, which we want to take through the Parliament. In addition, each year we will be taking 12 Western Australian students, along with the member for Murdoch, to a significant Anzac Day site throughout the world. This year we will be going to France and London. These 12 students have been selected from state and non-government schools all over Western Australia, with half of them from country Western Australia. There was a very good selection process, and I am told that the quality of the students who went through that process leads us to conclude that we can be very confident that our young people will carry the Anzac tradition with great honour in our State today. We will be visiting some of the battlefield sites in France, and we will also be attending the Anzac Day dawn service at the new Australian war memorial at Hyde Park in London. This is a great opportunity for these young Western Australians to learn first-hand about our history, and, upon their return, they will be expected to speak to their school and their neighbouring schools about what they have learnt, and encourage other students to take up the Anzac story. We are very proud of what we have been doing to make sure that the Anzac flame stays alive into the future. I thank all the members of Parliament who are encouraging their schools to become involved in the adopt a memorial program. It is a good program. It will be very interesting for the students, and, more significantly, they will learn about aspects of our history that are very important, such as mateship, resilience and making sure that we take that extra step in doing what we have been asked to do in our communities. Those issues are all part of what we regard as the Anzac tradition. We will make sure that the tradition continues in this nation for another hundred years.
A statue of our great wartime leader John Curtin will be constructed in Fremantle to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of his death and the end of the Second World War. We have also introduced the Anzac Day Amendment Bill 2003, which we want to take through the Parliament. In addition, each year we will be taking 12 Western Australian students, along with the member for Murdoch, to a significant Anzac Day site throughout the world. This year we will be going to France and London. These 12 students have been selected from state and non-government schools all over Western Australia, with half of them from country Western Australia. There was a very good selection process, and I am told that the quality of the students who went through that process leads us to conclude that we can be very confident that our young people will carry the Anzac tradition with great honour in our State today. We will be visiting some of the battlefield sites in France, and we will also be attending the Anzac Day dawn service at the new Australian war memorial at Hyde Park in London. This is a great opportunity for these young Western Australians to learn first-hand about our history, and, upon their return, they will be expected to speak to their school and their neighbouring schools about what they have learnt, and encourage other students to take up the Anzac story. We are very proud of what we have been doing to make sure that the Anzac flame stays alive into the future. I thank all the members of Parliament who are encouraging their schools to become involved in the adopt a memorial program. It is a good program. It will be very interesting for the students, and, more significantly, they will learn about aspects of our history that are very important, such as mateship, resilience and making sure that we take that extra step in doing what we have been asked to do in our communities. Those issues are all part of what we regard as the Anzac tradition. We will make sure that the tradition continues in this nation for another hundred years.
I thank all the members of Parliament who are encouraging their schools to become involved in the adopt a memorial program. It is a good program. It will be very interesting for the students, and, more significantly, they will learn about aspects of our history that are very important, such as mateship, resilience and making sure that we take that extra step in doing what we have been asked to do in our communities. Those issues are all part of what we regard as the Anzac tradition. We will make sure that the tradition continues in this nation for another hundred years.
Dr G.I. GALLOP replied : I thank the member for Riverton very much for the question. Nearly all of our First World War veterans have died, and most of our Second World War veterans are now in their 80s and 90s. Therefore, if we are to keep the Anzac flame alive, it is important that certain initiatives be put in place so that this great tradition will carry on into the future. Last year I set up the Anzac Day Review Committee. One of the members of that committee is the WA Branch President of the Returned and Services League, Mr Bill Gaynor, and it is chaired by my parliamentary secretary, the member for Rockingham. The idea behind the committee is to make sure that the Anzac heritage stays alive into the future. A number of initiatives are under way. The first is a program to rebuild the crumbling state war memorial in Kings Park. The second is a $250 000 small grants program to repair war memorials right around Western Australia. The third is an adopt a memorial program to encourage schools and community groups to adopt memorials, undertake research about them and keep them properly maintained. I thank the Minister for Education and Training for raising the issue of Anzac Day within our school system. We have moved to make the celebration of Anzac day compulsory in all our state schools. We have established a new memorial register and web site to record all the memorials and honour boards around Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett: Then why not support the flag? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I do support the flag. A statue of our great wartime leader John Curtin will be constructed in Fremantle to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of his death and the end of the Second World War. We have also introduced the Anzac Day Amendment Bill 2003, which we want to take through the Parliament. In addition, each year we will be taking 12 Western Australian students, along with the member for Murdoch, to a significant Anzac Day site throughout the world. This year we will be going to France and London. These 12 students have been selected from state and non-government schools all over Western Australia, with half of them from country Western Australia. There was a very good selection process, and I am told that the quality of the students who went through that process leads us to conclude that we can be very confident that our young people will carry the Anzac tradition with great honour in our State today. We will be visiting some of the battlefield sites in France, and we will also be attending the Anzac Day dawn service at the new Australian war memorial at Hyde Park in London. This is a great opportunity for these young Western Australians to learn first-hand about our history, and, upon their return, they will be expected to speak to their school and their neighbouring schools about what they have learnt, and encourage other students to take up the Anzac story. We are very proud of what we have been doing to make sure that the Anzac flame stays alive into the future. I thank all the members of Parliament who are encouraging their schools to become involved in the adopt a memorial program. It is a good program. It will be very interesting for the students, and, more significantly, they will learn about aspects of our history that are very important, such as mateship, resilience and making sure that we take that extra step in doing what we have been asked to do in our communities. Those issues are all part of what we regard as the Anzac tradition. We will make sure that the tradition continues in this nation for another hundred years.
I thank the member for Riverton very much for the question. Nearly all of our First World War veterans have died, and most of our Second World War veterans are now in their 80s and 90s. Therefore, if we are to keep the Anzac flame alive, it is important that certain initiatives be put in place so that this great tradition will carry on into the future. Last year I set up the Anzac Day Review Committee. One of the members of that committee is the WA Branch President of the Returned and Services League, Mr Bill Gaynor, and it is chaired by my parliamentary secretary, the member for Rockingham. The idea behind the committee is to make sure that the Anzac heritage stays alive into the future. A number of initiatives are under way. The first is a program to rebuild the crumbling state war memorial in Kings Park. The second is a $250 000 small grants program to repair war memorials right around Western Australia. The third is an adopt a memorial program to encourage schools and community groups to adopt memorials, undertake research about them and keep them properly maintained. I thank the Minister for Education and Training for raising the issue of Anzac Day within our school system. We have moved to make the celebration of Anzac day compulsory in all our state schools. We have established a new memorial register and web site to record all the memorials and honour boards around Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett: Then why not support the flag? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I do support the flag. A statue of our great wartime leader John Curtin will be constructed in Fremantle to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of his death and the end of the Second World War. We have also introduced the Anzac Day Amendment Bill 2003, which we want to take through the Parliament. In addition, each year we will be taking 12 Western Australian students, along with the member for Murdoch, to a significant Anzac Day site throughout the world. This year we will be going to France and London. These 12 students have been selected from state and non-government schools all over Western Australia, with half of them from country Western Australia. There was a very good selection process, and I am told that the quality of the students who went through that process leads us to conclude that we can be very confident that our young people will carry the Anzac tradition with great honour in our State today. We will be visiting some of the battlefield sites in France, and we will also be attending the Anzac Day dawn service at the new Australian war memorial at Hyde Park in London. This is a great opportunity for these young Western Australians to learn first-hand about our history, and, upon their return, they will be expected to speak to their school and their neighbouring schools about what they have learnt, and encourage other students to take up the Anzac story. We are very proud of what we have been doing to make sure that the Anzac flame stays alive into the future. I thank all the members of Parliament who are encouraging their schools to become involved in the adopt a memorial program. It is a good program. It will be very interesting for the students, and, more significantly, they will learn about aspects of our history that are very important, such as mateship, resilience and making sure that we take that extra step in doing what we have been asked to do in our communities. Those issues are all part of what we regard as the Anzac tradition. We will make sure that the tradition continues in this nation for another hundred years.
A number of initiatives are under way. The first is a program to rebuild the crumbling state war memorial in Kings Park. The second is a $250 000 small grants program to repair war memorials right around Western Australia. The third is an adopt a memorial program to encourage schools and community groups to adopt memorials, undertake research about them and keep them properly maintained. I thank the Minister for Education and Training for raising the issue of Anzac Day within our school system. We have moved to make the celebration of Anzac day compulsory in all our state schools. We have established a new memorial register and web site to record all the memorials and honour boards around Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett: Then why not support the flag? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I do support the flag. A statue of our great wartime leader John Curtin will be constructed in Fremantle to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of his death and the end of the Second World War. We have also introduced the Anzac Day Amendment Bill 2003, which we want to take through the Parliament. In addition, each year we will be taking 12 Western Australian students, along with the member for Murdoch, to a significant Anzac Day site throughout the world. This year we will be going to France and London. These 12 students have been selected from state and non-government schools all over Western Australia, with half of them from country Western Australia. There was a very good selection process, and I am told that the quality of the students who went through that process leads us to conclude that we can be very confident that our young people will carry the Anzac tradition with great honour in our State today. We will be visiting some of the battlefield sites in France, and we will also be attending the Anzac Day dawn service at the new Australian war memorial at Hyde Park in London. This is a great opportunity for these young Western Australians to learn first-hand about our history, and, upon their return, they will be expected to speak to their school and their neighbouring schools about what they have learnt, and encourage other students to take up the Anzac story. We are very proud of what we have been doing to make sure that the Anzac flame stays alive into the future. I thank all the members of Parliament who are encouraging their schools to become involved in the adopt a memorial program. It is a good program. It will be very interesting for the students, and, more significantly, they will learn about aspects of our history that are very important, such as mateship, resilience and making sure that we take that extra step in doing what we have been asked to do in our communities. Those issues are all part of what we regard as the Anzac tradition. We will make sure that the tradition continues in this nation for another hundred years.
Mr C.J. Barnett: Then why not support the flag? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I do support the flag. A statue of our great wartime leader John Curtin will be constructed in Fremantle to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of his death and the end of the Second World War. We have also introduced the Anzac Day Amendment Bill 2003, which we want to take through the Parliament. In addition, each year we will be taking 12 Western Australian students, along with the member for Murdoch, to a significant Anzac Day site throughout the world. This year we will be going to France and London. These 12 students have been selected from state and non-government schools all over Western Australia, with half of them from country Western Australia. There was a very good selection process, and I am told that the quality of the students who went through that process leads us to conclude that we can be very confident that our young people will carry the Anzac tradition with great honour in our State today. We will be visiting some of the battlefield sites in France, and we will also be attending the Anzac Day dawn service at the new Australian war memorial at Hyde Park in London. This is a great opportunity for these young Western Australians to learn first-hand about our history, and, upon their return, they will be expected to speak to their school and their neighbouring schools about what they have learnt, and encourage other students to take up the Anzac story. We are very proud of what we have been doing to make sure that the Anzac flame stays alive into the future. I thank all the members of Parliament who are encouraging their schools to become involved in the adopt a memorial program. It is a good program. It will be very interesting for the students, and, more significantly, they will learn about aspects of our history that are very important, such as mateship, resilience and making sure that we take that extra step in doing what we have been asked to do in our communities. Those issues are all part of what we regard as the Anzac tradition. We will make sure that the tradition continues in this nation for another hundred years.
Dr G.I. GALLOP: I do support the flag. A statue of our great wartime leader John Curtin will be constructed in Fremantle to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of his death and the end of the Second World War. We have also introduced the Anzac Day Amendment Bill 2003, which we want to take through the Parliament. In addition, each year we will be taking 12 Western Australian students, along with the member for Murdoch, to a significant Anzac Day site throughout the world. This year we will be going to France and London. These 12 students have been selected from state and non-government schools all over Western Australia, with half of them from country Western Australia. There was a very good selection process, and I am told that the quality of the students who went through that process leads us to conclude that we can be very confident that our young people will carry the Anzac tradition with great honour in our State today. We will be visiting some of the battlefield sites in France, and we will also be attending the Anzac Day dawn service at the new Australian war memorial at Hyde Park in London. This is a great opportunity for these young Western Australians to learn first-hand about our history, and, upon their return, they will be expected to speak to their school and their neighbouring schools about what they have learnt, and encourage other students to take up the Anzac story. We are very proud of what we have been doing to make sure that the Anzac flame stays alive into the future. I thank all the members of Parliament who are encouraging their schools to become involved in the adopt a memorial program. It is a good program. It will be very interesting for the students, and, more significantly, they will learn about aspects of our history that are very important, such as mateship, resilience and making sure that we take that extra step in doing what we have been asked to do in our communities. Those issues are all part of what we regard as the Anzac tradition. We will make sure that the tradition continues in this nation for another hundred years.
A statue of our great wartime leader John Curtin will be constructed in Fremantle to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of his death and the end of the Second World War. We have also introduced the Anzac Day Amendment Bill 2003, which we want to take through the Parliament. In addition, each year we will be taking 12 Western Australian students, along with the member for Murdoch, to a significant Anzac Day site throughout the world. This year we will be going to France and London. These 12 students have been selected from state and non-government schools all over Western Australia, with half of them from country Western Australia. There was a very good selection process, and I am told that the quality of the students who went through that process leads us to conclude that we can be very confident that our young people will carry the Anzac tradition with great honour in our State today. We will be visiting some of the battlefield sites in France, and we will also be attending the Anzac Day dawn service at the new Australian war memorial at Hyde Park in London. This is a great opportunity for these young Western Australians to learn first-hand about our history, and, upon their return, they will be expected to speak to their school and their neighbouring schools about what they have learnt, and encourage other students to take up the Anzac story. We are very proud of what we have been doing to make sure that the Anzac flame stays alive into the future. I thank all the members of Parliament who are encouraging their schools to become involved in the adopt a memorial program. It is a good program. It will be very interesting for the students, and, more significantly, they will learn about aspects of our history that are very important, such as mateship, resilience and making sure that we take that extra step in doing what we have been asked to do in our communities. Those issues are all part of what we regard as the Anzac tradition. We will make sure that the tradition continues in this nation for another hundred years.
I thank all the members of Parliament who are encouraging their schools to become involved in the adopt a memorial program. It is a good program. It will be very interesting for the students, and, more significantly, they will learn about aspects of our history that are very important, such as mateship, resilience and making sure that we take that extra step in doing what we have been asked to do in our communities. Those issues are all part of what we regard as the Anzac tradition. We will make sure that the tradition continues in this nation for another hundred years.
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