We're here for the Premier's Anzac Prize 2019 tour. We've travelled from London to Paris now to Belgium and France and back. We've been doing all the battlefields and a bunch of sightseeing as well. Getting to know each other whilst commemorating a lot of significant soldiers and the efforts that they went to in the war and their sacrifice.

There's a really big difference between actually researching the soldiers and then seeing where they lie. It's crazy to think that they were just like us.

Being here and walking where they walked really taught me a lot about how I see the world and what it is to be an Australian I think.

I think every day has been a highlight because going around Europe, it teaches you the memory is still alive. 
 
Even though we're so far from Australia, the message still carries on and it's carried on for over a century.

It's beautiful to see all the stories and everything. We got to share everyone's commemorations and eulogies and just kind of live through the life of each of those service people. It was amazing. 

I gave my first eulogy yesterday at Tyne Cot Cemetery. My great great grandfather served here on the Western Front, and it was very moving to see a name that you recognise on a headstone. The First World War becomes something more than history, more than figures.
It becomes real life and real people.

We went to Villers-Bretonneux for the dawn service, which was a really great experience it was very moving.

The atmosphere as you first walk up in the dark is really amazing with the music and the band playing. Hearing the national anthem. It's definitely comforting because everyone in the crowd knows the words, even though it's the other side of the world.

That atmosphere and being surrounded by so many people who have the same connection and feel the same way as I do. Oh, it was big waves of emotion.

And that feeling is so ecstatic and so powerful. And I'm so grateful even to this day for being accepted into the prize.