The changing face of Anzac commemorations, 1965 - 2015

Visits by New Zealand and Australian political leaders to Gallipoli on Anzac Day have been common for decades. But go back a little further and it was much more low key. Ahead of the 1965 commemorations the contributions of the New Zealand government were described as 'mean and shabby'. Those words appear in a new book by historian Rowan Light from Auckland University. Anzac Nations traces the changing shape of Anzac commemorations in New Zealand and Australia over the fifty years to 2015.