Article: Australian War Memorial: the remarkable rise of the nation’s secular shrine

Paul Daley, a journalist for the British newspaper The Guardian, talks to the director of the Australian War Memorial, Brendan Nelson.

Daley days: “Nelson, about half way through his five-year contract, ranges broadly during our conversation about the direction of the memorial on his watch, its depiction of Indigenous Australians, its refusal to depict colonial frontier war, the impact of war on service personnel and their families, and the pantheon of the first world war in Australia’s cultural and historical narrative.”

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Posted by: Eadaoin Hegarty, Centenary News