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THE Anzac Day dawn service at Point Danger will again not be held this year, and the Torquay RSL is urging the community to use the hiatus to rethink how the event will be organised, funded and run in the future.<\/p>\n

Torquay\u2019s annual dawn service on April 25 is Australia\u2019s largest outside the capital cities but takes months to organise – with preparations starting the previous August – and typically costs about $60,000 to stage, with the Torquay RSL footing the bill for at least $40,000 of that figure.<\/p>\n

Recent posts on social media complaining about the 2021 dawn service being cancelled despite the easing of COVID-19 restrictions has spurred the Torquay RSL to better explain the arrangements for Anzac Day and the need for it to change in 2022 and beyond.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s been on our radar for a long time that the community are not going to be happy with the Point Danger service being cancelled and that we needed to have some communications about that,\u201d Torquay RSL committee member Katie Reaper said.<\/p>\n

The welfare organisation appreciates the ongoing popularity of the event – which attracts between 8,000 to 15,000 people each year – but says the load must be spread more evenly, as crowd sizes are getting out of hand and the Torquay RSL<\/a> is bearing not only all of the costs but also all of the risk.<\/p>\n

Ms Reaper said there was a misconception that Surf Coast Shire funded and ran the dawn service, which was not the case, although the shire did help with traffic management and a small amount of funding.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the community had no idea and do have no idea that the RSL does it all,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Torquay RSL president Bob Tyler said his organisation applied for various grants each year to offset costs, but would not know by April how much that year\u2019s service would cost or if any of its grant applications were successful.<\/p>\n

He said the 2020 service still cost the Torquay RSL $15,000 in cancellation fees despite it being called off a month beforehand.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2019, we were out of pocket $40,000 and a welfare organisation can\u2019t afford that,\u201d Mr Tyler said.<\/p>\n

He said there would be \u201ca lot of changes\u201d to future dawn services at Point Danger.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we could get the support from the public, we would look at something similar to what\u2019s happening, but it won\u2019t be exactly the same \u2013 there\u2019s no way in the world it\u2019ll go back to what it was.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy aim is to be as fair as I can to everyone, but I\u2019ve got to look after 80 people (the Torquay RSL\u2019s veterans) more than I have to look after 14,000.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms Reaper estimated the dawn service would cost $150,000-$200,000 to run if the hours of contributions from volunteers were included.<\/p>\n

She suggested a community group should be formed to co-ordinate Anzac Day, to which the Torquay RSL would be an invitee but only responsible for the ceremonial formalities.<\/p>\n

This year, Point Danger will be fenced off to the public from April 24 until later on April 25.<\/p>\n

Ms Reaper said the Torquay RSL had no choice but to do so.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe learnt from Remembrance Day last year, which was a closed service, and we were in a lockdown – 10 people were invited, we had cones up, we had people manning it, and people drove straight through; 150 people did not care and none of those were veterans,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s shown to us that you either don\u2019t do it at all, or you do it in its entirety.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE Anzac Day dawn service at Point Danger will again not be held this year, and the Torquay RSL is urging the community to use the hiatus to rethink how the event will be organised, funded and run in the future. Torquay\u2019s annual dawn service on April 25 is Australia\u2019s largest outside the capital cities […]<\/p>\n

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