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a broad median area, flanked on either side by a newly planted Anzac Park, and beyond these roads for local traffic.

   Figure 35.  Perspective sketch of Anzac Parade looking towards the Australian War Memorial, 1963-64
   Source:  NCDC Annual Report 1963-64

   Figure 36.  Perspective sketch of Anzac Parade looking towards Old Parliament House, 1963-64
   Source:  NCDC Annual Report 1963-64, p. 6

Anzac Parade's conversion into a processional way was completed and officially opened on 25 April 1965, the 50th anniversary of the World War 1 landings at Gallipoli.  The Parade was then increasingly used as the processional avenue leading to ceremonies at the Australian War Memorial, such as on Anzac Day.

  Figure 37.  Aerial view of Anzac Parade looking North, under construction, c1965
  Source:  Richard Clough, Aerial view - earthworks on Anzac Parade completed, Canberra, National Library of Australia, nla.pic-an14324452-98

  Figure 38.  Anzac Parade at its opening, 1965
  Source:  NCDC Annual Report 1964-65, p. 2

Weston's tree planting of the former Prospect Parkway was removed at this time and replaced with Eucalyptus bicostata on both sides of the Land Axis in the new Anzac Park.  The central area was planted with Hebe species in regularly spaced raised planters formally located in a central band of red crushed brick gravel.  The choice of plants represented the Anzac spirit, symbolically linking New Zealand and Australia.  (Marshall and others 2010b, vol. 1, pp. 69-72, 87)

While locations for future memorials were incorporated into the design of Anzac Parade, the first memorial appeared almost by accident.  During the Suez Crisis of 1956, an Egyptian mob in Port Said had badly damaged a memorial to those members of the Australian Light Horse Brigade, the New Zealand Mounted Rifles, the Imperial Camel Corps and the Australian Flying Corps who had lost their lives in the Middle East in World War 1.  Pressure from veterans groups to repair and bring the memorial back to Australia were successful, but the favoured location, Canberra, was replaced by Albany, the departure point for the ANZAC troops.  Continued lobbying led to a decision to cast a copy from the original moulds which were held in Italy, for erection in Canberra, and this was unveiled on Anzac Parade by Prime Minister Gorton on 19 August 1968.  (National Heritage List citation;  Marshall and others 2010b, vol. 1, pp. 72-73)

  Figure 39.  View of Anzac Parade, 1966-67
  Source:  NCDC Annual Report 1966-67, cover

The Rond Point pool and water jets, outside the National Heritage place, were built in 1963 at the intersection of Anzac Parade and Parkes Way.  The Anzac Parade vista was accentuated in this period by the construction of the two monumental portal buildings on Constitution Avenue, aligned to the edge of the