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Last year, Prime Minister Scott Morrison described Anzac Day as “our most sacred day”. Dawn services were called off, due to the pandemic, but as Romain Fathi writes, interest in attending these services has, in fact, plummeted in recent years.
Between 2015 and 2019, the number of Australians attending Anzac Day dawn services fell by about 70%. In Canberra, for instance, attendance went from 120,000 in 2015 to 35,000 in 2019.
The popularity of Anzac Day, writes Fathi, has ebbed and flowed over the past century. But as our society changes, he argues, the Anzac tradition has a fading relevance to younger, more diverse demographics. If dawn services are to draw large crowds again, they will need to become more relevant, by acknowledging conflicts such as the Frontier Wars.
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Suzy Freeman-Greene
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Crowds ahead of the dawn service at Canberra’s National War Memorial in 2018. Attendance at the service fell from 120,000 in 2015 to 35,000 in 2019.
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Romain Fathi, Flinders University
The prime minister calls it "our most sacred day", but numbers at Anzac Day dawn services fell by 70% from 2015-2019.
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