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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Steve Evans

How to move six tonnes of honoured stone in a morning

At just over six tonnes, moving the Stone of Remembrance is not a job for your ordinary removalist.

Conveying it 50 metres from its temporary site on the side of the Australian War Memorial back to its honoured place looking down Anzac Parade took two giant German cranes, one capable of lifting 60 tonnes and the other able to lift 130 tonnes.

But the job was done.

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