FOR MEDIA 7 OCTOB-R 1983
A competition is to be held to find a design for a
memorial to the Royal Australian Navy.
The Canberra National Memorials Committee has approved the
establishment of the memorial in Anzac Parade, Canberra.
The memorial is to be completed by December 1985, in time
for its official unveiling durinq 1986 to mark the
anniversary of the Royal Australian Navy.
The memorial will be a most appropriate means of marking
the Navy's 75th Anniversary.
The commission for the memorial will be one of the most
valuable and significant ever awarded i. n Australia.
The National Capital Development Commission, which is
conducting the competition on behalf of the Coimmonwealth
Government will invite suitably qualified Australian residents
or Australian citizens abroad to register their interest in
being considered for a limited two-stage design competition.
A panel of assessors will review the applicants and select
up to 15 entrants to submit preliminary design proposals.
The panel will then select up to five designs to be
developed as final proposals.
The winning entrant will be selected by the assessment panel
from the final desiqns it receives and then submitted to the
Canberra National Memorials Committee for approval as a
National Memorial.
Subject to the Committee's approval, the winning entrant will
be commissioned to construct the memorial.
The assessors are
Commissioner, National Capital Development Commission
Mr A. J. W. Powell;
Secretary, Department of Territories and Local
Government, Mr J. D. Enfield;
Deputy Chief of Naval Staff, Rear Admiral M. W. Hudson
RAN, Designate;
Federal President of the Naval Association, Surgeon
Captain, A. S. Ferguson, VRD; and
Director of Artbank, Department of Home Affairs and
Environment, Mr Graeme Sturgeon.
The commission for this memorial offers talented Australians
the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to design a major work.
The memorial will take its place on Anzac Parade as a tribute
to those who contributed so much towards developing Australia's
naval heritage.
Details of the competition will be widely advertised in the
press.