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Anzac Day 2020
Anzac Day is a national holiday in Australia, with dawn services usually held across the country to mark the landing of Australian and New Zealand troops at Gallipoli during World War I. However social distancing measures meant Australians experienced a very differently Anzac Day this year.
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison delivers an address to an almost empty Australian War Memorial in Canberra on Anzac Day.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Federal Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Australian Soldier during the Anzac Day commemorative service at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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The catafalque party mounted at the Tomb of the Unknown Australian Solider during the Anzac Day commemorative service at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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The catafalque party mounted at the Tomb of the Unknown Australian Solider during the Anzac Day commemorative service at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra on Saturday.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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The Australian War Memorial in Canberra on April 25, 2020. Credit:Getty Images
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An Anzac Day service at dawn on the steps of the Sydney Opera House.Credit:AAP
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The Cenotaph in an empty Martin Place in Sydney on Anzac Day.Credit:AAP
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The bagpiper during the Anzac Day commemorative service at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Albie Woodhouse plays The Last Post on trumpet during a driveway dawn service in Sydney to mark Anzac Day on Saturday, April 25, 2020.Credit:Cole Bennetts
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AN Anzac Day dawn service at Melbourne Airport, which was attended by 15 airfield staff.Credit:Melbourne Airport
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People pay their respects during an Anzac Day service at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne on Saturday.Credit:AAP
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Two ex-servicemen, one a former sailor, the other a Vietnam veteran, stand outside their homes in Dee Why at 6am to observe a minute's silence on Anzac Day.Credit:James Brickwood
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Mark di Pasquale and his daughters, Jessica, 10, Elouise, 9, Alexis, 7, hold their own Anzac Day service in the Melbourne suburb of Macleod on April 25, 2020.Credit:Eddie Jim
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Bill and Chris Telfer in Clara Street in the Melbourne suburb of Macleod on Anzac Day, April 25, 2020.Credit:Eddie Jim
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Sandra Deed in Clara Street, Macleod, Melbourne on Anzac Day.Credit:Eddie Jim
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Three women holding candles listen to bugler Sarah Brown as she plays The Last Post from the balcony of The Royal Hotel in Leichhardt at dawn on Anzac Day. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Local residents in Clara Street, Macleod in Melbourne on Anzac Day.Credit:Eddie Jim
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Libby Haverfield holds a photograph of her father, who served for the New Zealand Air Force in WWII, on AnzacDay in Melbourne.Credit:AAP
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Libby Haverfield of Melbourne wears medals received by her father, who served for the New Zealand Air Force in WWII.Credit:AAP
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A man is seen looking at the memorial at the Doncaster RSL Club in Melbourne on April 25, 2020.Credit:Getty Images