HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 19:00, April 25

AAP General News (Australia)
04-25-2008
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 19:00, April 25

SYDNEY - A tiny village in rural France and a rusting hulk on the floor of the Indian
Ocean provided two poignant focal points for Australians commemorating the 93rd Anzac
Day. (Anzac Nightlead (Pix available))

VILLERS-BRETONNEUX - The thousands of Australian Diggers lying beneath the former World
War I battlefields of France would have been proud. (Anzac France Nightlead (Pix to come))

MELBOURNE - The lure of Gallipoli for Australians shows no sign of abating, with a
near-record crowd of 10,000 gathering in the chill at Anzac Cove for today's dawn service.

(Anzac Gallipoli Nightlead)

SYDNEY - A proud and emotional Governor-General Michael Jeffery today spoke of the
"deep cuts" of personal sadness he felt when honouring Australian front-line troops who
had died in the war on terrorism in Afghanistan. (Anzac Afghan GG)

MELBOURNE - Rugged and dangerous, Afghanistan goes some way towards teaching modern-day
Australian soldiers what life must have been like for the Anzacs at Gallipoli. (Anzac
Afghanistan)

MELBOURNE - Anzac Day has a sporting as well as a spiritual tradition - a fact not
forgotten by Australian troops in Iraq today. (Anzac Iraq Sport)

HELLFIRE PASS - Several hundred Australians and New Zealanders today mourned World
War II prisoners of war who died by the thousands as they hacked through Thailand's jungles
to build a railway under the guns of their Japanese army captors. (Anzac Thai )

PHNOM PENH - Hundreds of Australians, New Zealanders and Cambodians gathered near the
capital's most important Buddhist sites today to commemorate Anzac Day. (Anzac Cambodia
)

CANBERRA - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd used his first Anzac Day address today to declare
that Australia's war history confirmed it as a nation of good people. (Anzac Canberra
Nightlead)

SYDNEY - They were united in wishing to honour the sacrifices of their fathers and
grandfathers, but divided in where to join today's Sydney Anzac Day march. (Anzac NSW
Nightlead)

SYDNEY - Indigenous Australians who went to war for their country were not discriminated
against on the battlefield, but say they faced injustice from the RSL when they returned
home. (Anzac Indigenous)

MELBOURNE - HMAS Sydney veteran Allen Guthrie was "proud and humbled" today as he led
a special tribute to the sunken warship during Melbourne's Anzac Day march. (Anzac Vic
Nightlead (Pix available))

BRISBANE - World War II veteran Merv Clarke has been part of every Anzac Day march
since 1946, but he's still waiting for official word that the war is over. (Anzac Qld

Nightlead)

PERTH - A defiant 83-year-old Trixie Sullivan needed a zimmer frame as she marched
in Perth today to honour the memory of a long dead fiance, a victim of one of the most
infamous episodes of World War II. (Anzac WA Nightlead (Pix available))

ADELAIDE - Lonely banners under which many once proudly marched today served as a moving
tribute to the depleted ranks of World War II veterans in Adelaide's Anzac Day march.

(Anzac SA Nightlead )

LONDON - On April 25, 1915, Australians and New Zealanders fought and died together
on the distant shores of Gallipoli. (Anzac UK Nightlead)

in other news.....

SYDNEY - National Australia Bank has chosen the Anzac Day public holiday to announce
another rise in its home loans rate. (NAB Rates)

BEIJING - Australian mining giant BHP Billiton is among key Beijing Olympics sponsors
criticised for failing to press China to help end fighting in Darfur. (China Darfur)

SYDNEY - A woman found tied up in a Sydney park today has been identified as a woman
who was reported missing six days earlier from the same area. (Park. N/L to come.)

MELBOURNE - Gaining inspiration from the unlikely source of Fremantle discard Paul
Medhurst, Collingwood again claimed Anzac Day honours with a 73-point demolition of Essendon
today. (AFL Magpies)

ADELAIDE - Port Adelaide coach Mark Williams is adamant more of the AFL's time and
money should be committed to tapping indigenous communities for playing talent, perhaps
at the expense of the Irish experiment. (AFL Indigenous )

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