The following formal submission have been made public
Submitter: Millie RooneyNew Southern Entrance
Regarding the NCA's current consultation on the Australian War Memorial Main Works, while I write here about the New Southern, I am concerned about the project as a whole.
This project should not go ahead given the damage it will do to the role of Canberra as a city in the eye.
I do not believe that this development is consistent with the National Capital Plan and I am extremely concerned about how this development risks impacting on the symbolic nature of Canberra as "the symbol of Australian national life and values". The War Memorial exists as an institution to serve as a memorial to lives lost during war. It does not exist as a museum to war, nor as a glorification of war, violence and weapons.
This new development has been designed as a space in which to host military weapons and instigate interest in battle. To do this is to lose the sacred and reflective natural of the war memorial and the value we place on the terrible loss of lives that should have been lived.
The NCA has a responsibility to maintaining the site, approach and backdrop of key institutions. This development threatens the beautiful flow that exists from Mt Ainslie to Parliament House and runs the risk of unbalancing the landscape of the bush capital.
Specifically to the southern entrance. It would radically change the character of the existing landscape.
This project should not go ahead given the damage it will do to the role of Canberra as a city in the eye.
I do not believe that this development is consistent with the National Capital Plan and I am extremely concerned about how this development risks impacting on the symbolic nature of Canberra as "the symbol of Australian national life and values". The War Memorial exists as an institution to serve as a memorial to lives lost during war. It does not exist as a museum to war, nor as a glorification of war, violence and weapons.
This new development has been designed as a space in which to host military weapons and instigate interest in battle. To do this is to lose the sacred and reflective natural of the war memorial and the value we place on the terrible loss of lives that should have been lived.
The NCA has a responsibility to maintaining the site, approach and backdrop of key institutions. This development threatens the beautiful flow that exists from Mt Ainslie to Parliament House and runs the risk of unbalancing the landscape of the bush capital.
Specifically to the southern entrance. It would radically change the character of the existing landscape.
Anzac Hall and Glazed Link
The War Memorial should remain exactly that. A memorial to lives lost. A place of contemplating the blood and treasure lost to war. A place for families to grief and feel less alone in what they have lost in war.
A grand and enormous building designed purely to show of weapons that have killed our beloved family members is not in line with the intentions of the war memorial.
I do not believe that it is consistent with the National Capital Plan or the Griffin Plan for the War Memorial to be changed in this way.
A grand and enormous building designed purely to show of weapons that have killed our beloved family members is not in line with the intentions of the war memorial.
I do not believe that it is consistent with the National Capital Plan or the Griffin Plan for the War Memorial to be changed in this way.