At Canberra ceremony prime minister Scott Morrison will remember the 62,000 Australians who diedAustralians will pause on Sunday – at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month – to commemorate the guns falling silent to end world war one, 100 years ago. The prime minister, Scott Morrison, and the opposition leader, Bill Shorten, were due to address crowds at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra on Sunday morning. Australian women of the first world war – in pictures Read moreThe veterans affairs minister, Darren Chester, was also due to attend a service at Villers-Bretonneux in France. The deaths of almost 62,000 Australians in the first world war cast a dark shadow for decades. The names of Australia’s war dead were also projected on to the war memorial from sunset to sunrise.

Source: The Guardian November 10, 2018 19:00 UTC