The following formal submission have been made public
Submitter: Scott FullerAnzac Hall and Glazed Link
This architectural proposal connected with me the most. My visits to the AWM over the last 34 years have been significant in that for 34 years I served this country in the ADF, Army in Infantry. My visits were filled with excitement that gradually faded into disappointment because service in war and warlike operations during my era were poorly represented.
I am proud of my brothers and sisters who deployed on operations since Vietnam; however, the current AWM does not reflect their, indeed, our service perhaps as it deserves.
I connected with the design of the ANZAC Hall and Glazed Link architectural concept, and I think here is an opportunity to tell a new story of those who served post-Vietnam. Not just a hall remembering the longest war in Afghanistan as that mistake has already occurred in the current display design. It lends a perception to those who never deployed there that they never then really deployed. That discrimination to almost every veteran post WW1 and we should not continue to allow it to occur. Therefore, I plead to you, please give adequate recognition to all the men and women who served in less known conflicts and peace keeping missions by telling greater stories. An example of this might be the stories of those who served as part of third country deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, the myriad of UN Missions around the world that Australian Peace Keepers have participated in. And finally, the liberation of East Timor in 1999, how we have failed to tell the greatness and significance of Australian led international forces to liberate our neighbouring nation to our north. That deserves a hall.
I think the new ANZAC Hall and Glazed Link is opportunity that can preserve the stories to a greater degree to our post-Vietnam veterans.
I am proud of my brothers and sisters who deployed on operations since Vietnam; however, the current AWM does not reflect their, indeed, our service perhaps as it deserves.
I connected with the design of the ANZAC Hall and Glazed Link architectural concept, and I think here is an opportunity to tell a new story of those who served post-Vietnam. Not just a hall remembering the longest war in Afghanistan as that mistake has already occurred in the current display design. It lends a perception to those who never deployed there that they never then really deployed. That discrimination to almost every veteran post WW1 and we should not continue to allow it to occur. Therefore, I plead to you, please give adequate recognition to all the men and women who served in less known conflicts and peace keeping missions by telling greater stories. An example of this might be the stories of those who served as part of third country deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, the myriad of UN Missions around the world that Australian Peace Keepers have participated in. And finally, the liberation of East Timor in 1999, how we have failed to tell the greatness and significance of Australian led international forces to liberate our neighbouring nation to our north. That deserves a hall.
I think the new ANZAC Hall and Glazed Link is opportunity that can preserve the stories to a greater degree to our post-Vietnam veterans.