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margins and darker conifers for boundaries and backgrounds.  Autumn colour foliage plants were to be employed for formal and dramatic use.  Flowering trees and shrubs should be massed in small enclosures so as to allow the character of the natural landscape to predominate.

In 1963 the Landscape Division of the NCDC was established with Harry Oakman as Director.  He was followed in this role by Richard Clough in 1965 and John Gray in 1980.

Clough coordinated the landscape works and plantings for the north bank of the Central Basin, and the re-design of Anzac Park into Anzac Parade.

A main design approach to the Land Axis involved formal planting of various eucalypt species, which continued the concepts put forward generally by Lindsay Pryor.

The Rond Point Pool and water jets were built in 1963 at the intersection of Anzac Parade and Parkes Way.  Weston's tree planting of the former Prospect Parkway and Anzac Park were removed at this time and replaced with Eucalyptus bicostata on both sides of the Land Axis, with the central area planted with Hebe species in regularly spaced raised planters formally located in a central band of red gravel (crushed brick).  The choice of plants was symbolic to both New Zealand and Australia, in an attempt to represent the ANZAC spirit in a formal manner.

It is worth noting that there seems to have been no symbolism attached in the design to the choice of red gravel.  A suggested association with bloodshed or blood sacrifice appears to have been a later development.

The re-design of Anzac Park into Anzac Parade was carried out by a collaboration of Richard Clough and Gareth Roberts in the NCDC, with input from Richard Gray and Bill Minty (lighting design).  Both Gray and Minty were employed by Holford.  The NCDC town planner Peter Harrison supported the concept as it interpreted Griffin's Land Axis.

Both Clough and Roberts designed the forecourt to the Australian War Memorial to integrate with the treatment of Anzac Parade.  Their objectives were to unify the space and play down the main traffic intersection which was an inheritance from Walter Griffin.  A further complication was that the Remembrance Driveway terminated in a plantation of oak trees to the southeast of the Australian War Memorial.  The land sloped from east to west and was naturally out of balance for the intended formality, as the setting for the main façade of the Australian War Memorial.

A major decision in the design was to restore the prospect or line of sight along the Land Axis and to deal with the undulating topography.  Generally excavation was carried out on the Campbell side and fill placed on the Reid side.  The Australian War