Victorian Coalition Government invests $6 million to honour the Anzac Centenary

Minister Drum has announced that the Coalition Government will be committing an
additional $6 million to support Victorians to commemorate the Centenary of the First World War over the next four years.  Activities will include:

• Sending eighty Victorian students to travel to Anzac Cove at Gallipoli to attend the 2015 ANZAC Day Dawn Service
• a community information and engagement program, to enable communities all across the state to participate actively in the Anzac Centenary;
• upgrade of facilities and visitor experience at Point Nepean, from which the first shot of the war was fired on 5 August 1914;
• support for the First Shot commemoration ceremony, to take place on the Peninsula next to Fort Nepean on 5 August 2014; and
• a major event in August 2014 at the Melbourne Town Hall, to commemorate the mass meeting in 1914 to support the war effort.

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