Michael Ronaldson (Victoria, Liberal Party, Minister for Veterans’ Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I again thank the honourable senator for her very good question. Last year 900,000 people visited the Australian War Memorial and, of those, nearly 200,000 were students. This week I will launch the Anzac Portal and the We Remember Anzac education resource, which has been distributed to all schools across Australia. Honourable senators might be interested to know that TripAdviser has named the memorial as Australia's No. 1 tourist destination. Even more impressively, the memorial is the only Australian institution listed in their top 20.

Why this effort in relation to Australia's children? Because this nation's young people need to understand that, when they go to the Australian War Memorial, there are 102,000 names in those cloisters. They are men and women of this nation who gave their lives to ensure the freedoms that we enjoy today. They are the freedoms they paid for in blood. (Time expired)