NSW Simpson Prize -- Simpson Prize Winner heading for Gallipoli.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-6 April 2000-AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT: NSW Simpson Prize -- Simpson Prize Winner heading for Gallipoli (C)1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06042000 Gosford High School student Laura Grumley will leave Sydney later this month, to attend the ANZAC Day dawn service at Gallipoli as the NSW winner of the Simpson Prize.

The Simpson Prize is a national essay competition for Year 9 students about the meaning of the ANZAC tradition. The prize is named in honour of John Simpson Kirkpatrick, the man with the donkey, whose bravery and compassion has come to epitomise the ANZAC spirit. Laura`s essay looked at the significance of ANZAC and how ordinary Australians during wartime demonstrated courage, mateship, determination and sacrifice -...