Submitted by Paul Daley on
After 74 years, the cultural debate over the stone faces of an Indigenous man and woman at the Australian War Memorial will be a public one
The Australian War Memorial is about to start a long overdue public conversation about the cultural sensitivity of two of its original architectural features: the stone faces of an Indigenous man and woman that are set amid gargoyles of native Australian birds, reptiles, mammals and marsupials.
Memorial historians and curators, past and present, have long been divided about whether the Indigenous gargoyles should be replaced on cultural grounds.
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