When Australians and New Zealanders set out to capture the Gallipoli peninsula in 1915, they forged values that persist today.Why is it so important that we observe the Anzac Centenary? Why do the Anzac stories and values remain so central to the national identity? And why do they seem set to remain so into the future?Thirteen years after Federation, a young Australia and an equally young New Zealand faced their first big test in a war more bloody than any previous. Gallipoli was the introduction, and, for both nations, there was an imperative to live up to expectations and not to be found wanting.
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