Update:

The Canberra Times' Steve Evans has a detailed piece online this morning (too late for the hard copy) on where the filling of the vacancies on the Memorial Council is up to. This matter has been covered in recent pieces on this website: here, here, here.

Pdf of Evans from our subscription. Main points:

There are currently four vacancies on the Memorial Council, two of them, Tony Abbott and Greg Melick, are opposed to better portrayal of the Australian Wars at the Memorial.

Proponents of such portrayal hope that changes to the Council will improve the prospects of such portrayal happening.

Meanwhile, Peter Tinley of Western Australia, an associate of current but elderly Memorial Council Chair, Kim Beazley, has been elected National President of the RSL. (There has traditionally been an RSL senior officer on the Council.) Might Tinley be appointed to the Council, perhaps to replace Beazley, whose term ends on 30 November (a fifth vacancy)?

Minister Keogh's office - the Minister is responsible for the Memorial - has not responded to Evans' inquiries.

Picture credit: Peter Stanley, May 2025. The new Memorial foyer's southern wall. The Memorial depicted there is way pre-expansion; it is one of the original design sketches c. 1927.

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Oct 21, 2025
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