The Latest Breaking News from Australian War Memorial

The Australian War Memorial is in the news for reportedly retrospectively changing the rules of its Les Carlyon prize for military history. This resulted in it not being awarded to Walkley award-winning journalist Chris Masters’ book about disgraced special forces soldier Ben Roberts-Smith.

The former Labor leader says the Les Carlyon award is ‘explicitly for emerging authors’, disqualifying Chris Masters’ biography of the alleged war criminal

As findings of cost blowouts and conflicts of interests swirl around, the government has sought an urgent briefing with the national audit office.

In two cases, contracts were split to avoid triggering $1m threshold for ministerial approval, the Australian National Audit Office says

A national ceremony in Canberra will mark the 50th anniversary of the end of Australia’s involvement in the war

Kim Beazley says AWM acknowledges gravity of defamation decision amid calls to remove exhibits

Susan Norrie protested the invasion of Iraq in 2003. More than a decade later, she was covering the conflict as an official war artist.

"I recall one of the local elders describing the Australian soldiers like a colony of ants - all over the place. And we were."

On the 20th anniversary of the start of the second Iraq war, the Australian War Memorial reveals that its new gallery marking the conflict will feature anti-war protest material alongside a F/A-18 Hornet.