The Department of Veteran’s Affairs (DVA) has begun mailing out its annual package of educational resources for Anzac Day to the thousands of schools, libraries, ex-service and other organisations gearing up to take part in the nation’s most solemn holiday.
Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, Darren Chester (pictured) said the Anzac Day mailout was a significant annual exercise designed to ensure new generations understood the country’s role in wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations and the sacrifice so many made in defence of the nation.
“This year the Anzac Day mailout contains posters commemorating the final campaigns of the First World War on the Western Front and detailed publications and multimedia resources for school children of all ages,” Mr Chester said.
“This year represents the final year of the Anzac Centenary period and will culminate in national celebrations to mark the 100th anniversary of the Armistice — the end of the Great War.”
He said there were many resources in the mailout, including the seventh book in the Century of Service series,Curiosity: Stories of Those Who Report During Wartime, which tells the story of journalists, artists and photographers who recorded the war and the risks and challenges they faced.
Mr Chester said the mailout also included a flyer promoting an important new online teaching resource, Coming Home: An Investigation of the Armistice and Repatriation, which incorporated individual soldiers’ case studies and looked at how returned service men and women reintegrated into the Australian community.
Digital copies of the contents of the mailout can be accessed on the DVA’s Anzac Web Portal at this PS News link.
