On the 20th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War, the Australian War Memorial reveals that its new gallery marking the conflict will feature anti-war protest material alongside a F/A-18 Hornet.
abc.net.au/news/awm-iraq-war-gallery-includes-no-war-sydney-opera-house-protest/102117254On the morning of March 18, 2003, Australia was on the brink of going to war in Iraq, and Dave Burgess was scaling the Sydney Opera House in what would become one of the nation's most infamous protests.
"I was just thinking about the imminent conflict and the number of people who were going to die and how global politics would be changed forever for the worse as a result."The tallest sail of the opera house is a pretty high-profile canvas, but by chance, the protesters also timed their run for maximum exposure.
Mr Burgess and Mr Saunders were later convicted of malicious damage, sentenced to nine months' periodic detention, and ordered to pay the Opera House's $151,000 cleaning bill. One of the Sydney Opera House snow globes that Mr Burgess and Mr Saunders sold to raise money to pay for their cleaning bill."My children were born just after that, and they certainly bore the brunt of some of the circumstances a stint in prison does and the financial impacts," he said.
"Sometimes the most powerful stories actually come from very personal effects," AWM gallery development director Bliss Jensen said.
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