St Kilda's war memorials to get restoration funding

Port Phillip City Council is spending $233,000 and $25,000 a year in maintenance to conserve the area's 24 monuments including he crumbling South African War Memorial on the Esplanade which is missing many of its glazed terracotta tiles and the St Kilda War Memorial in Catani Gardens.

This is much welcomed money to preserve monuments to those who gave their lives for their country - lest we forget - that themselves make such significant aesthetic contributions to our built enviroment.