Eyes on Remembrance Day numbers in Vic
Eighty-five years after the unveiling of the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, the nation's support for Remembrance Day is fading.
The Victorian government on Sunday kicked off its pre-election commitment to run weekly Last Post services but fewer people are attending these ceremonies, Flinders University historian Dr Romain Fathi says.
"Since the 2000s, crowds at official Remembrance Day state services have rarely exceeded a few hundreds," Dr Fathi said.
"By contrast, those attending Anzac Day services are counted by the thousands and recently, the tens of thousands."
Amid conversations about the role of Remembrance Day in the national identity, data from the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute shows that homelessness among veterans is two and a half times higher than for the general population.
More than 5000 veterans who left the defence force between 2001 and 2018 experienced homelessness, the report reveals.
