Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L00408:front:0:p317
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L00408
Segment Type: other
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Character Range: 962399–965238

substantial creative achievement, reflecting changing and differing artistic responses over time to a commemorative purpose.

While the expressiveness of most of the memorials is contained within their landscape rooms, the New Zealand Memorial makes an important and distinctive contribution to the Parade.  The pair of memorial features act as symbolic and visual terminating features, providing a sense of the southern end of the memorial parade.  These appear as the last or first of the memorials which, fittingly, commemorate the New Zealand connection.  The form of the memorial is highly symbolic in this role – as two handles of the one basket, which also arc towards each other over the Parade – all to provide an end or start to the memorial section of the Parade.

One other built element deserves specific mention – the street lighting.  These lights display a high degree of care and quality in their design, and employ a design and materials well beyond standard street lights.  It is not just a matter of the individual lights, but the overall lighting composition has been carefully designed to enhance the visual quality of Anzac Parade.  The design of the light bases also embodies subtle military symbolism.  The use of such a design reflects the policy of providing high quality design in the National Triangle.

Summary
Anzac Parade meets this criterion as part of the Land Axis and Parliament House Vista, as part of the core of the planned city of Canberra and a landscape of outstanding heritage value.  Its current specific form is also outstanding as a highly symbolic and formal landscape.

The collection of memorials represent a substantial creative achievement, reflecting changing and differing artistic responses over time to a commemorative purpose.  In addition, the New Zealand Memorial makes an important and distinctive contribution to the Parade as symbolic and visual terminating features, providing a sense of the southern end of the memorial parade.

The street lighting is also an important contributing element to the overall landscape of the Parade.

(g) the place has outstanding heritage value to the nation because of the place's strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons

Applying indicators to the Anzac Parade data

Australians & Canberrans
The Parliament House Vista heritage management plan concluded that this place is strongly valued by the Canberra community as a landmark, a defining element for Canberra (Marshall and others 2010b, vol. 1, p. 176).  Anzac Parade is similarly part of Canberra's distinctive signature.

Further, it is a part of 'the heart of Canberra, the embodiment of Australian nationhood and democracy, and a place of national memory'.  The idea of Anzac Parade as part of the symbolic