Australian War Memorial funding dwarfed that of other cultural institutions in Coalition’s final years

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

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The Australian War Memorial received more funding than the rest of Australia's national cultural institutions put together, in the last two years of the Coalition government.

The National Gallery of Australia and the National Library of Australia are among the nation's peak cultural institutions warning their operations, collections and even buildings are under threat unless emergency funding of tens of millions of dollars are allocated in May's federal budget.