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Though a scheduled air force demonstration never eventuated, there was still plenty of spectacle about Airlie Beach’s ANZAC Day proceedings.
An estimated 1800 people ignored the inclement weather to attend the mid-morning march down the Esplanade, leaving Remembrance Rock overflowing with wreaths by the end of the commemorative service.
Local veterans and active service men and women mixed in the crowd with police officers, school students, air force cadets, Whitsunday Regional councillors, and state and federal politicians.
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Whitsunday MP Amanda Camm invited the gathering to reflect on “how blessed we are to be able to come together as a community when many parts of the world are at war against a virus”.
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