00:00Flags at half-mast for a moment of reflection.
00:07When there's something that's happened where over 100,000 people have not returned back to their families and stuff like that, I believe that's very, very important to remember them.
00:19Braving the heat in Darwin and on Anzac Hill in Alice Springs to commemorate those who dedicated their lives to service.
00:28To me, service is about the greater good, putting others, your nation and your community before yourself.
00:34It is more than a job. It is about supporting and lifting others and providing hope.
00:40On a day that looks to the past, today was also about the future, with new traditions like this poem written from the perspective of a veteran.
00:50Don't be sad or weep for me. Be happy, my mates, when you think of me. Lest we forget.
01:02While others hope for a future when the guns fall silent for good.
01:07Let us also honour and use the occasion of Remembrance Day to work towards a world that is more peaceful at a time when the world desperately needs more peace.
01:23The significance of the location of the ceremony not lost on the crowd.
01:28This site overlooks Darwin Harbour from which all who served in the First World War and would have been one of the last familiar sights they saw.
01:36Ending with the last post marking the last day of the First World War.
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