New Zealand Memorial, Canberra

[1] The memorial was designed by artist Kingsley Baird and architects Studio of Pacific Architecture, both of Wellington, New Zealand.

The image of a basket carried by two people expresses the shared effort of the two nations to achieve common goals in both peace and war, and to acknowledge the courage and sacrifice of service men and women who served shoulder-to-shoulder on foreign soil.

Daisy Nadjungdanga from Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia designed the paving under the western handle; Toi Te Rito Maihi and Allen Wihongi from Northland, New Zealand, designed the paving under the eastern handle.

At the centre of the paving on each side is buried soil from Gallipoli, the birth of the ANZAC tradition as soldiers fought together in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps in 1915.

A ceremony held on 26 February 2001 soil from Chunuk Bair was buried in a rimu box on the New Zealand side, while on the Australian side, soil from Lone Pine was buried in a box made from Australian jarrah.