Fed: PM announces appointment of centenary commission

AAP General News (Australia)
04-25-2010
Fed: PM announces appointment of centenary commission

KEVIN RUDD has appointed a special commission to advise the federal government on how
to commemorate the centenary of the Gallipoli landings in 2015.

It will include former prime ministers BOB HAWKE and MALCOLM FRASER.

Mr RUDD says the commission will call for submissions from around the country .. adding
he wants ordinary Australians to have their say on how we should mark the centenary.

Suggestions already include a new Anzac gallery at the war memorial .. Anzac scholarships
.. and enlivening commemorations with new monuments abroad.

This could include the preservation of the submarine AE-2 which breached the Dardanelles
Narrows in 1915 .. or finding her sister ship the AE-1 which remains lost without trace
with all hands off Rabaul.

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