Veterans’ Affairs

Australian War Memorial’s Post-1945 Galleries — redevelopment

Capital ($m)

	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
Australian War Memorial	6.7	3.2	-	-
Related expense ($m)
Australian War Memorial	-	0.3	0.5	0.9

The Government will provide $11.6 million over four years (including $1.7 million expense funding) to construct a new building for staff and storage space displaced by the redevelopment and expansion of the Australian War Memorial’s exhibitions of post-1945 conflicts. The expense funding will provide for running costs of the new building and additional running costs associated with the redeveloped exhibitions.

The cost of redeveloping the exhibitions, $12 million over two years, will be met by the Australian War Memorial through the application of proceeds from fundraising, reserves and through changing expenditure priorities. The expansion of these exhibitions will better reflect the service and sacrifice of those Australians who participated in those operations. The operations covered by the redeveloped exhibitions will include Vietnam, Korea, East Timor, Afghanistan, Iraq and peacekeeping commitments.

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