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NCA 2009, 'Anzac Parade Walking Tour Podcast', www.nationalcapital.gov.au/, accessed 2011, not accessible 4 August 2022)

Doyle writes about Anzac Parade and the memorial spaces themselves as performative spaces, engaging and interacting with the visitor.  He suggests that the design of the Korean memorial intentional creates, 'an environment into and around which the visitor can, indeed is invited to move' (Doyle 2000, p. 6).

The feelings created by the memorial designs and spaces were commented on in the focus groups,

    'the Navy memorial is wonderful especially when the water is running...'

    '...Greek memorial where you trip over the rocks... but that is significant too…'

    'And how you have to move through the Turkish memorial...'

Anzac Parade as a place where important events and contributions are remembered and memorialised

Anzac Parade is a complex place.  It is a parade ground (outside the study area of this plan), a ceremonial space, part of the Land Axis vista.  Anzac Parade can be read as,

    'a summary of Australia's military involvements... connecting the Australian War Memorial to the Parliamentary Buildings of the triangle across the lake... 'curious' because it consists of a series of discrete monuments nestled within their own niches along two sides of the Parade... Australian in the quiet reticence of their nestling – there is no strident militarism here'  (Doyle 2000).

 The extent of memorialisation that exists in the Australian War Memorial and Anzac Parade has been a subject for some discussion in response to a proposal to place two new memorials on the Rond Terraces, beyond Anzac Parade and in the Land Axis.  These discussions enable an examination of the perceived purpose of the existing memorials today.

 Some interesting reflections on the importance of Anzac Parade to the associated armed services community are documented in submissions to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on the National Capital and External Territories, through the Lake War Memorials Forum (a group opposed to the then proposed memorials), and in the Canberra Times.  For example, Air Marshal David Evans AC DSO AFC, a former Chief of the Air Staff and former Chair of the NCA, offered the following perspective,

    'What has been created here in the National Capital – the Australian War Memorial and ANZAC Parade is a tasteful and revered sanctuary visited by hundreds of thousands each year.  They come to learn of the deeds and sacrifices and to pay homage to the men and women who served and indeed to the sacrifices of their families.'  (Lake War Memorials Forum, www.lakewarmemorialsforum.org/23March.html, accessed 2011, archived at https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/tep/157452)

Neil James, Executive Director of the Australia Defence Association, comments on the vista and its symbolism,

    'First, there is the continuing importance of the vista from the new