CANBERRA: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced another major increase in the already inflated $550 million cost to refurbish and expand the Australian War Memorial in the nation’s capital.

Mr Albanese said federal cabinet had approved a change to the original expansion plans.

“Ministers spent a long time in cabinet discussing the fact that our nation has not properly recognised the climate wars that have cost the political lives of so many in the Liberal Party,” he said.

“These climate wars have dragged on for many years and show no sign of stopping, so ministers felt that a suitable form of recognition is essential if we are not to forget the casualties and causes of this ongoing war.”

Mr Albanese said cabinet had approved spending an extra $50 million on the first stage of a new Liberal Party’s Climate Wars section of the Australian War Memorial.

“The $50 million is on top of the current $550 million upgrade program at the National War Memorial which in turn was originally approved at $500 million,” Mr Albanese said. “But we think it’s $50 million well spent.”

Mr Albanese said the new project would see the installation of an initial four busts of Liberal Party prime ministers or opposition leaders whose political lives were cut short entirely or in part because of the climate wars. (main picture)

“These initial four busts will be made of solid gold and will sit on red marble plinths and we have made sure there is plenty of room to install more busts for current and future Liberal leaders as time goes on.”

Mr Albanese said cabinet ministers had wrestled with some thorny issues before deciding to approve the project.

“Among those was a key question about whether we should permanently memorialise these former Liberal leaders given the fact that their political lives were ended by so-called ‘friendly fire’ from their own coalition partners in the National Party,” he said. “But we thought the need to remind the Australian people of those who had fallen and why outweighed such concerns.”

Mr Albanese denied the project was a cheap political stunt using taxpayers’ funds just to draw a contrast between the Liberal-National coalition and the Labor Party and their climate change policies.

“Nothing could be further from the truth,” he said. “Who the fuck would think $50 million was cheap?”

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