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Honoring Australian Defence Force members from Gallipoli to modern conflicts. Join Parkes Dawn Service, March, Ceremony, Luncheon, and Evening Ceremony.

For all the effort invested, in the end the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban was inevitable. Everything the Taliban assured negotiators they wouldn’t do, they did. As Fred Smith, who worked for DFAT in Uruzgan province and elsewhere, writes in The Sparrows of Kabul, 'the problems that brew in failed states become our problems'

Premium Content Subscriber only They are our new generation of heroes, honourable veterans of a war we should never forget and who served with a pride that we cannot allow to be tarnished. Having served where they were sent, Afghanistan veterans have faced tough challenges on their return - young servicemen and women coming to terms with their exposure to death, war and subsequent suicides. Now, they say, it is more important than ever for people to come together and honour those who served....