Anzac Day to last 48 hours

This year there were isolated complaints about the behaviour of some people attending the services, with reports of late-night drinking and dancing to Kylie Minogue records before the service began. Nearly 20,000 flocked to the services.

Mrs Vale said it was wonderful to see so many young Australians and New Zealanders paying their respects at Gallipoli.
When Alec Campbell, the last of the Gallipoli Anzacs, died in May, the author of Gallipoli , Les Carlyon, said: "It is perhaps the strangest thing that, at a time when there is now no one left alive, interest in the story has probably never been greater."