The following formal submission have been made public
Submitter: Alistair BellNew Southern Entrance
Although it is important to have a War Memorial, there needs to be much more community consultation before significant investments are made on development, renovation or expansion.
The real day to day needs of our veterans and their families are not being met. They should take priority over the memorial.
War is ugly. War memorials should invite us to reflect on this, but ours is a jingostic glorification of war that cherry-picks the things we want to remember and overlooks or omitted the horror.
The term "Our veterans" applies to people such as interpreters and collaborators now abandoned in Afghanistan. Australians have been involved in war crimes - at political, social and individual levels from the frontier wars with our indigenous people to recent conflicts in the middle East. Lest we forget.
The real day to day needs of our veterans and their families are not being met. They should take priority over the memorial.
War is ugly. War memorials should invite us to reflect on this, but ours is a jingostic glorification of war that cherry-picks the things we want to remember and overlooks or omitted the horror.
The term "Our veterans" applies to people such as interpreters and collaborators now abandoned in Afghanistan. Australians have been involved in war crimes - at political, social and individual levels from the frontier wars with our indigenous people to recent conflicts in the middle East. Lest we forget.
Bean Building Extension and Central Energy Plant
Although it is important to have a War Memorial, there needs to be much more community consultation before significant investments are made on development, renovation or expansion.
The real day to day needs of our veterans and their families are not being met. They should take priority over the memorial.
War is ugly. War memorials should invite us to reflect on this, but ours is a jingostic glorification of war that cherry-picks the things we want to remember and overlooks or omitted the horror.
The term "Our veterans" applies to people such as interpreters and collaborators now abandoned in Afghanistan. Australians have been involved in war crimes - at political, social and individual levels from the frontier wars with our indigenous people to recent conflicts in the middle East. Lest we forget.
The real day to day needs of our veterans and their families are not being met. They should take priority over the memorial.
War is ugly. War memorials should invite us to reflect on this, but ours is a jingostic glorification of war that cherry-picks the things we want to remember and overlooks or omitted the horror.
The term "Our veterans" applies to people such as interpreters and collaborators now abandoned in Afghanistan. Australians have been involved in war crimes - at political, social and individual levels from the frontier wars with our indigenous people to recent conflicts in the middle East. Lest we forget.
Anzac Hall and Glazed Link
Although it is important to have a War Memorial, there needs to be much more community consultation before significant investments are made on development, renovation or expansion.
The real day to day needs of our veterans and their families are not being met. They should take priority over the memorial.
War is ugly. War memorials should invite us to reflect on this, but ours is a jingostic glorification of war that cherry-picks the things we want to remember and overlooks or omitted the horror.
The term "Our veterans" applies to people such as interpreters and collaborators now abandoned in Afghanistan. Australians have been involved in war crimes - at political, social and individual levels from the frontier wars with our indigenous people to recent conflicts in the middle East. Lest we forget.
The real day to day needs of our veterans and their families are not being met. They should take priority over the memorial.
War is ugly. War memorials should invite us to reflect on this, but ours is a jingostic glorification of war that cherry-picks the things we want to remember and overlooks or omitted the horror.
The term "Our veterans" applies to people such as interpreters and collaborators now abandoned in Afghanistan. Australians have been involved in war crimes - at political, social and individual levels from the frontier wars with our indigenous people to recent conflicts in the middle East. Lest we forget.