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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Kelly Burke

Australian War Memorial funding dwarfed that of other cultural institutions in Coalition’s final years

The Australian War Memorial in Canberra, which is undergoing a major refurbishment.
The Australian War Memorial in Canberra, which is undergoing a major refurbishment. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

The Australian War Memorial received more funding than the rest of Australia’s national cultural institutions put together, in the last two years of the Coalition government.

The National Gallery of Australia and the National Library of Australia are among the nation’s peak cultural institutions warning their operations, collections and even buildings are under threat unless emergency funding of tens of millions of dollars are allocated in May’s federal budget.

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