Australia's most significant - and poignant - day

An Australian soldier lies wounded, as other soldiers move up the beach at Anzac Cove on the day of the landing in 1915. Credit: Getty

The 25th of April is ANZAC Day. It is perhaps the most important, and indeed the most poignant, day in the national life of Australia. It's a day observed in many different ways at different times - from the historic to the very serious, and to the light-hearted.

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