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  • Anzac Day kids face march ban

    03/06/2010 5:11:57 PM PST · by myknowledge · 6 replies · 383+ views
    The Daily Telegraph ^ | March 7, 2010 | Miawling Lam
    NSW is under pressure to ban children from marching alongside their fathers and grandfathers in the Anzac Day parade because they outnumber veterans by almost seven-to-one. New rules introduced by Brisbane's Anzac Day organisers for this year's main march bar the descendants of Anzacs from participating to "preserve the dignity" of the event. Organisers said the change was necessary to avoid the march becoming like Sydney's parade last year. "Last year in Sydney there were 1000 World War II veterans and 7000 descendants. It got to the stage where the veterans can't be recognised for the descendants," said Queensland committee...