ANZAC Day was commemorated on Sparta Place in Brunswick Victoria, by an official party made up of Australian’s of Hellenic origins who gathered to pay homage to heroes of a bygone era and also to commemorate the Australians who served and died in Greece and in Papua New Guinea during WW2.
The statue of King Leonidas was erected in Sparta Place in 2009, and it serves as a symbolic reminder that freedom should not be taken for granted and that those who made the ultimate sacrifice in support of freedom did not do so in vain.