Their legacy lives on through us

This Remembrance Day, I ask you all to pause and reflect.

To reflect on service, sacrifice, and the Australians who gave their lives for our nation and the freedoms we enjoy today.

We remember their families, whose strength supported them then, and the families who continue to support those who serve now.

At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, the guns fell silent on the Western Front.

More than 60,000 Australians never came home.

Their legacy lives on through our people today. Through their courage, endurance and mateship.

For 125 years, Australia’s Navy has carried that legacy across the oceans.

At sea and alongside, we hold dear the memories of our shipmates gone before us - HMAS Sydney ll lost with all 645 men aboard, HMAS Perth, sunk in the Sunda Strait and HMAS Armidale whose crew, including Teddy Sheean, our first and only Royal Australian Navy Victoria Cross recipient, fought with valour in the Timor Sea.

We remember those whose lives were lost in all service through war and peacetime.

Lest we forget.