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The Western Australian city is re-enacting the departure of Australian and New Zealand troops to the first world war. With Gallipoli centenary commemorations looming, not all agree about the way the Anzac legacy is presented
• Albany, the harbour town at the centre of Anzac centenary commemorations – video
The re-enactment of the first ship convoy to transport Australian and New Zealand troops to conflict a century ago could be the most majestic spectacle in our country’s Anzac commemoration.
It also promises to set a hyperbolic standard for the $350m-plus, four-year, festival that will commemorate Anzac – perhaps the most evocative, and now soon most to be invoked acronym in Australian idiom.
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