Driveway at Dawn – 5.30am – 25/04/20

Tomorrow morning 25th April is Anzac Day 2020, for the first time in almost a century, streets will be empty across NSW.

There will be no veterans marching, no Dawn Services at Martin Place or Bondi Beach, no Last Post played in regional schools and local RSL clubs.

With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing services and marches to be cancelled on Saturday, and residents urged to stay home, most of the familiar public rituals will be missing.

Instead, Australians are being encouraged to stand at the end of their driveways, on their balconies or in their lounge rooms at 6am to commemorate those who served, those who died and those who are still serving.

To ensure there is a record of this historic day, the NSW State Library will be collecting images shared on social media and is encouraging people to post images including their driveway commemorations using the hashtags

#NSWathome and #Anzacathome.