NSW Premier Chris Minns banned full-day retail trade on the national day of remembrance, with the exemption of "essential" service providers including hotels and clubs.
Hundreds remember Anzacs at services across the world
More than 100 years since Australia’s Gallipoli campaign, the Anzac spirit is also remembered around the world.
Photo shows Around the World, ANZAC Day Services: A serviceman marches at a dawn ceremony.Has Video Duration: 2 minutes 4 seconds.PM attends Anzac Day dawn service at Isurava, PNG
The prime minister said Australia "will never forget" the help PNG provided Australian soldiers during World War II.
Photo shows PNG ANZAC Day Dawn Service, Anthony Albanese: Anthony Albanese and James Marape lay a wreath.Has Video Duration: 2 minutes 15 seconds.Anzac Day dawn services and parades held across the country
Australians have gathered to remember and honour those who have been lost in battle and all those who've served.
Photo shows Remembered and Honoured, ANZAC Day: Silhouete of service member at dawn.Has Video Duration: 2 minutes 53 seconds.Bushman carries his family's tradition in what could be Australia's most picturesque dawn service
Since the 1980s, down-to-earth station owner Paul Hansen has welcomed folks to his riverside rural homestead for an Anzac Day dawn service that's a little different to official events.
Photo shows A man with a long beard and white curly hair carries a cross the reads "lest we forget".Survivor reflects on 60 years since maritime disaster
The last man to escape from the HMAS Voyager returns to the ghost of his old ship to impart the ANZAC legacy onto the next generation.
Photo shows Maritime Disaster, Next Generation: A man with war medals.Has Video Duration: 2 minutes 45 seconds.Dedicated veteran's death leaves hole in country town's Anzac Day commemorations
The legacy of a veteran who was known to do anything to help others in his country WA town has been highlighted by those touched by his generosity.
Photo shows historic image of two soldiersAdelaide's ANZAC Day's Dawn Service
The Adelaide National War memorial hosted the Dawn Service.
Photo shows A crowd of people sit around the Adelaide National War Memorial at dawnHas Video Duration: 1 minute 1 second.From building Blackhawk landing pads to collecting intelligence, the work of peacekeepers can be downplayed
Australian Defence Force personnel and federal police officers have participated in 62 global peacekeeping missions since 1947, which one vet says "can be very complex, very confronting, especially when you're unarmed".
Photo shows Soldiers sitting on and swimming in water around a military landing transport with islands in the background.Millicent veteran Fred Ellis talks about service in Royal Australian Navy
Fred Ellis is one of the last World War II veterans left in the south-east of South Australia. He talks about his service and what Anzac Day means for him today.
Photo shows An elderly man sitting in a chair wearing four medalsHas Audio Duration: 5 minutes 35 seconds.Shrine guards take their posts at Melbourne Dawn Service
Shrine guards take their posts and wreaths are laid in the Sanctuary of the Shrine at the Stone of Remembrance.
Photo shows Four soldiers standing positioned at each corner of the stone of Remembrance facing outward. A line of ADF personnel watch on.Has Video Duration: 1 minute 59 seconds.ANZAC Day Dawn Service in Melbourne
Professor Margaret Gardner delivering the annual ANZAC Day address, Melbourne Dawn Service.
Photo shows Professor Margaret Gardner, a lady with red hair standing at lectern in the dim light of dawn.Has Video Duration: 2 minutes 35 seconds.Thousands turn out to ANZAC Day Dawn Services across Australia
ANZAC Day Dawn Services are being held throughout the country to commemorate Australian soldiers and their families.
Photo shows ANZAC Day Dawn Services, Across Australia: Three servicemen silhoueted against a blue sky.Has Video Duration: 6 minutes 19 seconds.ANZAC Day Dawn service Australian War Memorial
Dawn service 109th anniversary of the Gallipoli Landings. Principal Chaplain Kerry Larwill CSC presents the Benediction
Photo shows Three soldiers with heads bowed stand in the dim light of dawn holding lanterns at national war memorial.Has Video Duration: 1 minute 35 seconds.Three generations of sacrifice: The Copeman family's legacy of love and military service
The Copeman family's commitment to the country spans generations from WWI to Vietnam. Now their legacy will live on in a memorial garden south-west of Sydney.
Photo shows Four men from three generations of the Copeman family in photos.First Nations soldiers have a long history of Army service in Australia
On Wiradjuri country in Albury NSW, the Moffitt family are taking ANZAC Day to remember their ancestor's four generations of service in the Australian Army.
Has Video Duration: 2 minutes 48 seconds.Five decades after fighting in Vietnam, John Bryant has returned to help find the bodies he buried
John Bryant has dedicated his life and life savings to uncovering the bodies of missing Vietnamese soldiers he and his battalion killed in combat.
Photo shows Vietnamese soldier in uniform of the left with John Bryant on teh right. They are standing in the jungle in front of trees.'It's not my thing': 106-year-old war veteran opts out of Anzac Day marches
World War II veteran Colin Wagener joined the military with three friends in 1938. He returned to Australia in 1945 after serving in Borneo, but has never joined an Anzac Day march.
Photo shows A 106-year-old man sits on a floral couch and looks at the camera. Photo albums are open on the coffee table in front.Dawn services, parades and two-up: Australians commemorate Anzac Day across the nation and beyond
Anzac Day is commemorated across Australia and New Zealand, from dawn services and marches to games of two-up, on the 109th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings.
Photo shows Crowd of people walkingBefore the war Michael McCaughey and David Macpherson had been jackaroos with ambitions of becoming managers of family properties.
Before the war Michael McCaughey and David Macpherson had been jackaroos with ambitions of becoming managers of family properties.
Has Video Duration: 1 minute 27 seconds.Eight decades after their death, two Australian soldiers are helping advance an unlikely industry
In the last days of 1943 a brave young Australian soldier, whose family played an influential role developing Australia's irrigation industries, lost his life trying to save wounded comrades in the mountains of Papua New Guinea.
Photo shows A posthumous portrait of Lieutenant Michael McCaughey