Dedication of the Flame of RemembranceHobart, 25th April 2015Your Excellency Professor the Honourable Kate Warner AM, Governor of Tasmania; Lord Mayor of Hobart, Alderman Sue Hickey; my colleagues from Federal, State and Local governments; distinguished members of the Australian Defence Force, serving and returned; President of the RSL State Branch, Mr Robert Dick.Today we commemorate an event considered a defining chapter in our countrys story, and our national identity. One hundred years ago the first Australian and New Zealand troops landed at Gallipoli.One hundred years on, and every year on this day, we come together to commemorate this catastrophic campaign and to remember and honour the brave men and women who served there. 15,000 Tasmanians enlisted in World War 1, and 2,432 never came home.My fathers great uncles son, Private Harry Hodgman, was one of them. A 22 year old, from Brighton, he enlisted in October and landed at Gallipoli on 25thApril 1915 six months later, where he was killed almost immediately. He was one of 61,000 Australians who died in World War 1.Today, like on every ANZAC Day,we will remember and pay gratitude to Australians who have served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations.But on this most extraordinary day - the 100thAnniversary - we will especially remember the first ANZACS, those at Kabatepe - Anzac Cove - on April 25, 1915.Today, I think of the sacrifice of my ancestor, young Harry - half my age - and the thousands like him.I honour him, and those thousands, for their bravery, their sacrifice, their service to our country.And I also thank them from the bottom of my heart for what they have done to give meaning and value to the sense of our national identity.The official war historian of the time, Charles Bean, wrote;during four years in which nearly the whole world was so tested, the people of Australia saw their own men those who had dwelt in the same street or been daily travellers in the same trains flash across the worlds consciousness like a shooting star. In the first straight rush up the Anzac hills in the dark; in the easy figures first seen on the ridges in the dawn sky; in the working parties stacking stores on the shelled beach without the turning of a head; in the stretcher bearers walking, pipes in mouths, down a bullet-swept slope to a comrades call . Australians watched the name of their country rise high in the esteem of the worlds oldest and greatest nations.Every Australian bears that name proudly abroad today and by these daily doings, great and smallthe Australian nation came to know itself.And now, 100 years on from that nation defining event, we now at last dedicate this new Flame of Remembrance, to ensure we will never, ever forget them.I now officially hand over the Flame of Remembrance to the People.