SENATE ADJOURNMENT DEBATE: Senator for Queensland, Senator Claire Moore.
21:14h, Tuesday, 19 April 2016
Senator MOORE (Queensland) ( 21:14): This Friday, at Kangaroo Point Cliffs Park in Brisbane, there will be a ceremony to honour the work of Canon David John Garland, an energetic Dublin-born Orangeman who became known as “the architect of ANZAC Day”.
The 25th of April, which is now such an important part of Australian life, was shaped by an extraordinary energetic, public-spirited and organisationally gifted Anglo-Catholic priest 100 years ago.
In terms of the work that this man did – and that lives today – he developed the concept of the ANZAC Day ceremony which continues, in many ways, in a similar way to this day.
He saw that this ceremony should be an Australian All Souls’ Day – a remembrance day that, whilst having elements of religion, was essentially secular and was able to appeal to Australians and to people from overseas to gather together to commemorate sacrifice, to remember loss and to join together in this feeling.
He also understood that this needed to engage with people of all religions.
In those days, there were particular concerns around sectarianism between Protestants and Catholics. The Protestants did not believe in praying for the dead; it was not part of their theology. The Catholics at that time were bound by a process which would not allow them to join in services run by other religions.
Canon Garland cut through this kind of behaviour.
The organising committee for the first ANZAC Day was a civic occasion brought together by the local political leaders at the local government level – the two mayors of Brisbane, as it then was – the Premier, the Leader of the Opposition and the various State Ministers. They got together to proclaim that they would inaugurate an ANZAC Day service in Brisbane.
They were seated together in moving forward with the ANZAC Day organising committee, of which Canon Garland was the secretary.
They were part of this grouping that was able to understand that the particular celebration, acknowledgement and remembrance of ANZAC Day was something that brought communities together.
Canon Garland’s previous activities actually showed the kind of passion, zeal and, as often quoted about the man, administrative abilities which were able to prepare him for this work that he took on to show the acknowledgement of whom he called “our lost”.
In terms of the personality of Reverend Garland, it is very clear that he was a man of strong personality. He had an uncompromising determination to succeed in any cause he espoused.
This character-led to frequent and bitter clashes with the hierarchy in various parishes in which he operated.
This gave him a taste of the need to work within the community to advocate for a cause.
Most particularly, this was perhaps the first time he worked as a regular political advocate.
When he returned to Brisbane, the outbreak of World War I led to a real opportunity for his organisational talents: first, as the secretary of the state recruiting committee; then, as an army camp chaplain; and, after Gallipoli, as the secretary of the first designated ANZAC Day commemoration committee in Australia.
He campaigned for a closed public holiday that would have the date of 25 April, with a set liturgy. He insisted that, as I said, it was Australia’s All Souls’ Day, with the concept that people would be able to have the opportunity to acknowledge the day in their own way.
The model for ANZAC Day commemoration was very much set by the work that Garland did in 1916, when he established that there would be a process for people to attend their own religious services in their various groups during the morning, then they would gather for some form of public process that would engage with people across the community, followed by a way for people – particularly ex-servicemen who were around – to have some kind of public gathering and dinner.
Again, this community spirit was the driving force of his process.
– from Hansard, Australian Parliament, reproduced on Senator Claire Moore’s website.
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