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meaningful Parliament House – Australian War Memorial vista should be preserved and protected from the notion that every war, other operation or campaign, current political fashion or ethnic group needs to be commemorated individually.'  (www.lakewarmemorialsforum.org/docs/23MarNeilJames.html, archived at https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/tep/157452)

Asked about the relative importance of Anzac Parade, with its memorials, compared to local memorials in every town and suburb across Australia, both focus groups talked about the different qualities of each type of ceremony,

    'in all the small towns the speakers and the key people are normally veterans – in Canberra it's the representative of the political party in power – sometimes PM and sometimes the Governor General – but often it's a junior minister (laughter)... sending along a junior minister is offensive'  (Focus Group 1)

    'at central coast... what I found was that it was very community centred... everybody came... so many people marching there is no audience... once the formal part was over everyone staying... it was a real community day... people stayed all day'  (Focus Group 1)

    '...Canberra is more symbolic – national government'  (Focus Group 1)

    'times have changed... each city has its own memorial of sorts... the Australian War Memorial is where the idea is cemented and in Anzac Parade'  (Focus Group 2)

    'Anzac Parade brings it home for the whole nation... it is the national capital and we need a national place... for us to commemorate in totality in a central place... this is ours... it is in danger of being whittled away because it doesn't have the funding... it is part and parcel of maintaining national togetherness... where we bond together... where the national heart is and where the Anzac spirit keeps flowing...'  (Fred, Focus Group 2)

5. Evidence of Other Values

    5.1 Expert-Based Values – Aesthetics and Creative Achievement

Landscape character

The landscape of the study area is part of the core of the National Capital.

Its development as a formal setting was driven by the visual corridor created between the Parliamentary Triangle and the Australian War Memorial along the Land Axis.  The corridor is a space defined by the visual connectivity of the ground plane treatments together with the symmetrical buildings and trees on each side and the dramatic impact of the terminating elevation of Mount Ainslie at one end and Capital Hill (Mount Kurrajong) at the other.

Anzac Parade had been more physically defined than the Parliamentary Triangle area by the two side roads giving access to the respective suburban edges of Campbell and Reid.  Together with the central paved spaces, roads, paths and walls contribute to a hard edge treatment softened only by the grass verges and the flanking tree plantations.  Another important quality is the rising ground from Constitution