Veterans' Affairs Minister Matt Keogh

Veterans' Affairs Minister Matt Keogh on the Australian Frontier Wars and their place in the Australian War Memorial

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00:00 War Memorial Council has taken a decision to expand that frontier conflict representation

00:04 and it's great to see that as part of recognising Australia and Australian colonial involvement

00:09 in conflict prior to Federation and that will be part of that representation which provides

00:15 useful context to the overall work that the Australian War Memorial does here through

00:19 its exhibition spaces in providing context to its role as Australia's national memorial.

00:25 But how substantial, how important should that space be?

00:28 Well it's going to be a more substantial reflection than we've had historically.

00:33 That is important to make sure that we do provide proper context and the decisions around

00:37 how individual exhibitions and those spaces are laid out and set out is a matter for the

00:41 Australian War Memorial Council.

00:49 Well it's great to see it all coming together.

00:58 There's certainly a need to expand the memorial with more exhibition space so that we can

01:03 properly reflect on 21st century conflict that hasn't been able to be properly reflected

01:08 here historically and now as we see the building starting to come together, the concrete pours,

01:14 the new parade space, start to get a physical sense of what those new exhibition spaces

01:19 will be able to provide to Australians all over the country that come to visit the War

01:23 Memorial here in Canberra.

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