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The King George V memorial is not just a memorial to the King. It is also a war memorial, commissioned before the
Australian War Memorial was completed. The monument has two distinct sides – the King George side, which honours both the reign of the monarch and the Australian federation, and the Saint
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Completion of the memorial was delayed by the Second World War. While it was largely complete by 1941, the casting of the statue of George V and bronze plaques to be mounted on the
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since the 1940s. Commissioned in 1936 and largely completed by 1941, it took until 1953 to officially unveil the monument due to delays to the final elements of its construction which resulted from the
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The King George V Memorial has been heritage listed since 2004. During 2015 it was restored at a cost of $ 326,000; these works included installing features to prevent it from being used by
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Indigenous Australian residents of Canberra called for the memorial to be removed in 2020 on the grounds that it is inappropriate to have a British Empire-era monument adjacent to the
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reported that the memorial was a "revered site for the city's skaters and has even featured in promo videos for international pro skate teams as they toured
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