The Latest Breaking News from The Australian War Memorial

Veneration of veterans gained momentum in the John Howard era and the revelations from Afghanistan have shocked many.

On Friday, the Federal Court dismissed Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation case against The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Canberra Times.

The Prime Minister praised Indigenous contribution to Australian defence.

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

The recent media rounds of the new chair of the Australian War Memorial Council, Kim Beazley, appear to presage a major shift in the institution’s attitude to the frontier wars. Beazley explained it is “enormously important” that the current $550 million renovation of the war memorial provides significant coverage of…

Memorial given more than $600m in last two years of Morrison government, as the nation’s peak collecting museums languished