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describing the symbols contained in the Vietnam memorial, one participant commented,

    'The memorials while they have an explanatory plaque... it hardly scratches the surface of what the memorial is about... for example the MIA seats... Where are the seats positioned?  They are outside the memorial because they are still away.'  (Focus Group 1)

Doyle also suggests a distinctively different symbol that might be read into the space,

    'the fact that the whole of the Anzac Parade is placed within, and seems to grow organically out of, the local urban space means that apart from that large axis of the Australian War Memorial to Parliament there is an almost more important embedding of the memorials and their symbolic values within their typical communities—suburban Australia.  Australian service personnel may have fought to establish and maintain the democracy symbolised by the Parliament but the nearby housing is rather more pertinently the very literal thing itself they fought for—home and hearth.'  (Doyle 2000, p. 10)

Anzac Parade as a place for ceremonies, commemorations and gatherings

The individual memorials, set within their own space and enclosed by trees, are designed as engaging, symbolic and ritual spaces – places to enter and connect actively with the place through all ones senses – fragrance, touch, sight and sound.  Each offers a designed space for commemoration ceremonies.  The activities that these memorials and memorial spaces provide may well be as important as the physical fabric of the memorial itself.  The Australian Service Nurses National Memorial, for example,

    'is a memorial that invites you to walk into and through its space.  To see and consider the images and to read of the conflicts and the places where Australian nurses have served... The garden, down the ramp from the walls, has a waterfall that separates the area for contemplation from the memorial itself.  Recalling that nurses often established gardens where ever they were posted, the garden has been planted with rosemary, the traditional plant for remembrance, and is the only memorial to have a seat integrated into its main design'  (NCA 2009, 'Anzac Parade Walking Tour Podcast', www.nationalcapital.gov.au/, accessed 2011, not accessible 4 August 2022)

At the Korean memorial the colours and metal field of poles evoke the cold and colourless winter landscape strongly remembered by those who served in Korea,

    'Those rods in front of the Korean memorial are so cold and yet that was Korea, bitterly cold for our troops up there.'  (Defence Force veteran Bernie Sullivan AM, 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