Where once the award-winning Anzac Hall graced the back of the Australian War Memorial, there is now a vast hole in the ground known to the construction workers there as "The Pit".
The Canberra Times was given exclusive access as an army of labourers and mechanical diggers removed the last loads of 58,640 cubic meters of earth. That's the equivalent of 50 Olympic-sized swimming pools or 9000 truck-and-trailer loads.
