Joint Standing Committee on Public Works

Committee activities (inquiries and reports)

Redevelopment of Post 1945 Conflicts Galleries and Discovery Room for the Australian War Memorial, Canberra , ACT

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February 2006
Canberra

Membership of the Committee
List of abbreviations
Extarct from the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Repsresentatives
List of recommendation

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Proposed Works
Chapter 3 Issues and Conclusions
Appendix A List of Submissions
Appendix B List of Witnesses
Appendix C Submission No. 1 from the Australian War Memorial
Appendix D Official Transcript of Evidence

Membership of the Committee

Chair	Hon Judi Moylan MP
Deputy Chair	Mr Brendan O’Connor MP
Members	Mr John Forrest MP	Senator Michael Forshaw
	Mr Harry Jenkins MP	Senator Stephen Parry
	Mr Bernie Ripoll MP	Senator the Hon Judith Troeth
	Mr Barry Wakelin MP

Committee Secretariat

Secretary	Mrs Margaret Swieringa
Inquiry Secretary	Ms Vivienne Courto
Research Officer	Mr Raymond Knight
	Ms Penny Wijnberg
Administrative Officer	Mr Peter Ratas

List of abbreviations

AWM	Australian War Memorial
DEH	Department of Environment and Heritage
EPBC Act	Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
NCA	National Capital Authority
RSL	Returned and Services League of Australia
the Act	Public Works Committee Act 1969
the Plan	The National Capital Plan

Extract from the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives

No. 74 dated Thursday 1 December 2005

4 PUBLIC WORKS—PARLIAMENTARY STANDING COMMITTEE—REFERENCE OF WORK—REDEVELOPMENT OF POST-1945 CONFLICTS GALLERIES AND DISCOVERY ROOM FOR THE AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL, CANBERRA, ACT

Dr Stone (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Finance and Administration), pursuant to notice, moved—That, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1969, the following proposed work be referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works for consideration and report: Redevelopment of post-1945 conflicts galleries and discovery room for the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT.

Question—put and passed.

List of recommendations

Recommendation 1

The Committee recommends that works relating to the proposed redevelopment of the post 1945 Conflicts Galleries and Discovery Room at the Australian War Memorial proceed at the estimated cost of $ 17.8 million.