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National Heritage List Citation
   Appendix F
    AWM Commonwealth Heritage List Citation
   Appendix G
    Parliament House Vista Commonwealth Heritage List Citation
   Appendix H
    AWM Vegetation Study, Neil Urwin—Griffin Associates Environmental
   Appendix I
    Navin Officer, Australian War Memorial, Campbell and Mitchell, ACT—Indigenous Cultural Heritage Assessment, March 2008
   Appendix J
    Memorial Stakeholder and Community Consultation
   Appendix K
    EPBC Referral 2019-8574 Approval Conditions

   Executive Summary

   War memorials are ubiquitous expressions of Australian nationhood. They appear amongst every concentration of people across the country, from our cities to our tiny outback towns. But the grandest of these expressions, the monument that strives to honour all forms of remembrance and all events that need to be remembered, is the Australian War Memorial (AWM) in Canberra.

   The AWM is Australia's National Shrine to those Australians who lost their lives and suffered as a result of war. It is an important place to the Australian community as a whole and has special associations with veterans and their families and descendants of those who fought in wars for Australia.

   The AWM is unique in Australia and believed rare in the world as a purpose built repository where the nature of commemoration is based in equal parts in the relationship between the building, the collections of objects and records and the commemorative spaces.

   Its physical presence alone is a dominant feature of the nation's capital: an Art Deco edifice at the head of Anzac Parade facing the federal houses of parliament across Lake Burley Griffin.

   A shrine, a museum, an archive, a formal landscape and an outstanding collection of buildings, the AWM offers itself to the nation as a place for reflection, research, education and ceremony. It embodies many heritage values which are recognised by its inclusion in the National Heritage List along with Anzac Parade, the Commonwealth Heritage List, the Register of the National Estate, the ACT Royal Australian Institute of Architects' National Heritage List and Register of Significant Twentieth Century Architecture, the ACT National Trust Register.

   The Commonwealth's Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) and its accompanying regulations (EPBC Regulations) oblige government agencies to conserve and manage the heritage values of sites in their control. The legislation defines heritage principles that agencies must follow and directs agencies to create documents for guiding their care of heritage places, including this Heritage Management Plan.

   This Heritage Management Plan (HMP) acts as a practical guide for conserving, managing and interpreting the site's heritage. It begins by describing the AWM in detail: its history, its features and its heritage values. It discusses factors that need to be considered when managing the site, such as its statutory context and compliance requirements. The final sections of the plan provide conservation policies