Editing Remembrance Day (section)

===Australia===
[[File:11 Nov gnangarra-15.jpg|thumb|left|The Australian Minister of Defence, [[Stephen Smith (Australian politician)|Stephen Smith]], lays a wreath at the Eternal flame in [[Kings Park, Western Australia]] on Remembrance Day, 2011]]
In Australia, Remembrance Day is always observed on 11 November, regardless of the day of the week, and is not a public holiday; it is a time when people can pay their respects to the substantial number of soldiers who died in battle. Some institutions observe two-minutes' silence at 11&nbsp;am through a program named Read 2 Remember,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.read2remember.org.au/ |title=Read 2 Remember |access-date=11 November 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111113165704/http://www.read2remember.org.au/ |archive-date=13 November 2011  }}</ref> children read the ''Pledge of Remembrance'' by Rupert McCall, and teachers deliver specially developed resources to help children understand the significance of the day and the resilience of those who have fought for their country and call on children to also be resilient when facing difficult times. Services are held at 11&nbsp;am at [[war memorial]]s and schools in suburbs and cities across the country, at which the "Last Post" is sounded by a bugler and a one-minute silence is observed.  Some institutions observe this solemn occasion at 11:11&nbsp;am on the day,{{cn|date=March 2025}} adding two more soldiers to the ranks. When Remembrance Day falls on a normal working day in Melbourne and other major cities, buglers from the [[Australian Defence Force]] often play the "Last Post" at major street corners in the CBD. While this occurs, the majority of passers-by stop and observe a moment of silence while waiting for the bugler to finish the recital.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.3aw.com.au/cbd-intersections-come-to-a-standstill-for-remembrance-day/ |title=CBD intersections come to a standstill for Remembrance Day |publisher=3AW |date=11 November 2019 |access-date=10 November 2020}}</ref>

====History in Australia====
[[File:Flag bearers assembled on the stage at City Hall during an Armistice Day service, Brisbane, ca. 1940 (4441874571).jpg|thumb|An Armistice Day service at Brisbane City Hall, 1940]]
In interwar Australia, Remembrance Day (then often referred to as Armistice Day) was a popular public commemoration. But from 1946 to the 1970s, Australians observed Remembrance Sunday following the British pattern.<ref>Minutes of meeting of Full Cabinet held at 2.30 pm, Monday, 25 March 1946, at Parliament House, Canberra, NAA A2703, 124, p. 3</ref> It is only in the 1980s and 1990s that Remembrance Day was once again systematically observed on 11 November. The resurgence of Remembrance Day became official on 30 October 1997, when the Governor-General, under the Howard government, proclaimed that "(a) 11 November in each year shall be known and observed as Remembrance Day; and (b) all Australians are urged to observe, unless impractical, a minute's silence at 11:00 on Remembrance Day each year".<ref>William Patrick Deane, Governor-General of Australia, [https://www.legislation.gov.au/file/1997GN44 Proclamation, no. S 437], Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, Thursday 30 October 1997. Accessed 11 November 2020. Page 117 of 124.</ref>

In recent decades, Remembrance Day has been largely eclipsed as the national day of war commemoration by [[ANZAC Day]] (25 April), which is a public holiday in all states.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337199887 |title="Remembrance Day: The Poor Cousin of Australian War Commemoration". In Carolyn Holbrook and Keir Reeves, ed. The Great War: Aftermath and Commemoration.|last=Fathi|first=Romain|publisher=NewSouth|year=2019|pages=218–220}}</ref> Attendance at Anzac Day services boomed, while that of Remembrance Day services continued to decline. Historian Romain Fathi explains, "In Australia, ANZAC Day has addressed the question of the meaning of the war far better than Remembrance Day or Remembrance Sunday. It can acknowledge loss and suffering with a nod to the sacred, while simultaneously representing imagined distinct national values such as mateship, laconic humour and stoicism. This capacity to connect the national community to the numinous explains Anzac Day's primacy over Remembrance Day."<ref name=":0" />