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What's happening at this year's Remembrance Day ceremony

Canberra's young will feature heavily in this year's ceremony.

The Canberra Times

‘Breaker’ Morant killed 12 prisoners during the Boer war. So why do supporters say he should be memorialised in Adelaide?

Adelaide council has rejected a push to get Morant, who was executed for war crimes, on a memorial – but there are plans to seek a posthumous pardon

The Guardian - AU

Australian War Memorial kept ministers in the dark on contracts for $550m redevelopment, audit finds

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

The Guardian - AU

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Govt opens way to greater Frontier Wars recognition at War Memorial

The way the War Memorial council is picked is due to change.

The Canberra Times

Australian War Memorial installs new plaque acknowledging Ben Roberts-Smith ‘complicit in unlawful killings’

Move criticised as inadequate, with Australian Centre for International Justice saying it minimised gravity of allegations

The Guardian - AU

Ben Roberts-Smith’s War Memorial display must acknowledge his crimes, or be torn down altogether

A ‘war hero’ who has disgraced his country and his fellow soldiers should not be honoured in the Australian War Memorial, Crikey readers say.

Crikey

'More appropriate places': AWM council member opposes Frontier Wars rethink

Displays should be for those who fought "in Australian uniforms".

The Canberra Times

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‘We’d like the two periscopes’: the mission to save a piece of Australia’s first submarine

The AE1 was found 103 years after it sank in the first world war. Now a team hopes to salvage part of the disintegrating wreck to be preserved in a museum

The Guardian - AU

Canberra kids name AWM cranes - and no, it's not Craney McCraneface!

Primary school kids name the two big cranes.

The Canberra Times

Australian War Memorial reveals new Iraq War gallery will showcase 'NO WAR' Sydney Opera House protest items alongside fighter jet

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.

ABC News

Memorial's 'Name the Crane' competition underway - but don't call it Craney McCraneface

Primary school kids invited to name the two big cranes.

The Canberra Times

Australian War Memorial accepted more than $830,000 from arms manufacturers in three years

Figures released to Senate reignite debate on commemoration of war dead funded by companies that profit from conflict

The Guardian - AU

Canberra anti-war activist wins prestigious military prize

ANU professor Christine Helliwell wrote about a secret WWII military operation in Borneo.

The Canberra Times

New Australian War Memorial rises from the ground

A "name the crane" competition is likely as the machinery moves in.

The Canberra Times

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The Guardian - AU

The Anzac cloak has shielded the Australian War Memorial from criticism. Its recognition of frontier violence is long overdue

The integrity of Australian history demands truth-telling and our shrine to the military should lead the way

The Guardian - AU

Australian War Memorial promises ‘much broader, deeper’ depiction of frontier wars

Move comes after AWM faced criticism for sparse presentation of atrocities against Indigenous Australians during colonisation

The Guardian - AU

Australian War Memorial cannot be given ‘blank cheque’ to cover cost blowouts, Labor MP says

Government maintains support for $550m expansion project despite previous objection from MPs David Smith and Tony Zappia

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Huntington Exploration Changes Its Name Inspired By Angel Wing Prospect

Huntington Exploration Inc. (TSXV:HEI) has changed its name to Angel Wing Metals Inc., effective at the market opening on May 19, 2022. Effective at market opening on May 19, 2022, the company's common shares will begin trading under its new trading symbol, "AWM." The company noted the new name is inspired by…

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The Guardian - AU

An Australian War Memorial sponsored by weapons dealers is no place for quiet reflection on Anzac Day

With boastful displays and arms maker sponsors, the memorial falls ever shorter of duty to commemorate the toll of war

The Canberra Times

A life caught in the threads of war

Evelyn Chapman led an extraordinary life.

The Guardian - AU

Australian War Memorial seeks new funding from Lockheed Martin despite veterans’ criticism

Hundreds of Australians wrote letters saying sponsorship deals with arms manufacturers are ‘degrading to the memory of our war dead’

The Guardian - AU

Australian War Memorial urged to stop accepting money from Lockheed Martin

Veterans, historians and experts say companies that profit from conflict have no place in a solemn memorial to those killed in war

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