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Director Brendan Nelson talks about the Gallipoli centenary, being in charge of the world’s 17th most popular landmark and why victims of the frontier wars will have to wait for recognition
Canberra was never meant to have an Australian war memorial.
In 1912 when Walter Griffin and his wife, Marion Mahony Griffin, won the international competition to design the capital of newly federated Australia, their plan included a casino where the monument to this country’s 102,000 war dead now stands instead.
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