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the collections; the surrounding landscape; and Anzac Parade.
 Commentary           The NHL statement provides and accurate evaluation against criterion (h).
 Suggested Revision   No revision required.

  Criterion (i) Indigenous Tradition— the place's importance as part of Indigenous tradition.

 Official Statement of Heritage Value   No values identified.
 Commentary                             Based on current evidence and consultation, there are no Indigenous traditions associated with the AWM which meet this criterion at this time. Refer to Section 4.5.2 below.
 Suggested Revision                     No revision required as the AWM does not meet the threshold for inclusion in the NHL under criterion (i).

    4.4.3  Commonwealth Heritage values—Official and Suggested Revision

 Table 4.2 provides the official Commonwealth Heritage value assessment against the criteria. Commentary on each criterion is provided and a suggested revision made where relevant and appropriate for the management of both official values and additional values.

 The existing statements confirms the Commonwealth Heritage values assessment against criteria (a) Processes, (b) Rarity, (d) Characteristic Values, (e) Aesthetic Characteristics, (f) Creative or Technical Achievement, (g) Social Values and (h) Significant People. The suggested revision finds 'additional', identified values under criterion (c) Research Potential.

 Table 4.2 Review of Commonwealth Heritage Values—Official Citation and Suggested Revision.

 Criterion (a) Processes—the place's importance in the course, or pattern, of Australia's natural or cultural history.
 Official Statement of Heritage Value                                                                                              The Australian War Memorial is Australia's National Shrine to those Australians who lost their lives and suffered as a result of war.
                                                                                                                                   Attributes
                                                                                                                                   The building, setting and contents that illustrate Australia's historical involvement in war.
 Commentary                                                                                                                        The assessment could be explained further with reference made to its functions as a museum and archive which both contribute to helping Australians to Australians remember, interpret and understand the Australian experience of war.
                                                                                                                                   The attributes section of the assessment is quite broad and could be refined.
 Suggested Revision                                                                                                                The Australian War Memorial is Australia's National Shrine to those Australians who lost their lives and suffered as a result of war.
                                                                                                                                   It has served another historic function as a museum and archive dedicated to helping Australians remember, interpret and understand the Australian experience of war and its enduring impact on Australian society.
                                                                                                                                   Attributes:
                                                                                                                                        * Its foremost historical and significant function as a shrine demonstrated by the main Memorial building's architectural form, character and key spaces and elements including the Hall of Memory, Commemorative Area, Roll of Honour and dioramas within the galleries;
                                                                                                                                        * the museum, archive and the Memorial's collection;
                                                                                                                                        * the landscape setting of the AWM buildings, including the open surrounds and natural landscape backdrop of Mount Ainslie; and
                                                                                                                                     the central location of the AWM within Canberra and its siting at the northern extent of Griffin's Land Axis and Anzac Parade.
 Criterion (b) Rarity—the place's possession of uncommon, rare