Posted by Administrator on June 25th, 2008 | Categorized as Brindabella, Business & Economic Development, Climate Change & Energy, Community Consultation, Environment, Governance, Health, Molonglo, Planning, Tuggeranong
The community group - “Canberrans for Power station Relocation Inc” (CPR) held a protest outside the ACT Legislative Assembly on Wednesday, 25 June 2008.
The protest was organized to occur opposite the fountain in Civic Square (London Circuit) outside the public entrance to the Legislative Assembly at midday.
Prior to the protest the group put rally signs [...]
Posted by Administrator on June 12th, 2008 | Categorized as Brindabella, Ginninderra, Governance, Molonglo
The Community Alliance Party had their official launch launch on Thursday 12 June 2008 at the Albert Hall in Yarralumla (ACT).
Their guest and keynote speakers were:
Tony Powell AO - former Commissioner for the NCDC
Dr. Jenny Stewart - Associate Professor of Public Policy at University of Canberra
The MC was Ian MacDougall (a local musician) who also [...]
Posted by Administrator on June 11th, 2008 | Categorized as Business & Economic Development, Community Consultation, Education & Training, Employment & Industrial Relations, Ginninderra, Governance, Gungahlin, Housing, Molonglo, Planning, Transport
The June Gungahlin Community Council meeting was held on Wednesday 11th June at the Palmerston Community Centre. Video of the full meeting is available here, broken into thirteen sections (via a YouTube playlist).
The guest speaker at the meeting was Andrew Barr MLA, Minister for Education and Training, Industrial Relations, Planning, and Tourism, Sport and Recreation. [...]
Posted by Administrator on June 11th, 2008 | Categorized as Governance, Molonglo
On 30 May 2008, ACT Greens MLA Deb Foskey announced that she would not be standing for re-election at the October election.
Dr. Foskey was kind enough to let us film the following piece which is a reflection in her own words about her term in the ACT Legislative Assembly and her plans for life and [...]
Posted by Administrator on June 7th, 2008 | Categorized as Business & Economic Development, Governance, Tourism, Sport & Recreation
The official Queen’s Birthday long weekend is the only time of the year when members of the public are legally allowed to use fireworks. The regulations also require that fireworks may only be sold from licensed premises and not, for example, from the roadside.
Consumer Fireworks
Only Fireworks that have been registered as Consumer Fireworks can be [...]
Posted by Administrator on June 5th, 2008 | Categorized as Brindabella, Business & Economic Development, Community Consultation, Environment, Ginninderra, Governance, Gungahlin, Jerrabomberra, Majura, Molonglo, Molonglo, North Canberra, Planning, South Canberra, Transport, Tuggeranong, Urban Services & Infrastructure
Curfew4Canberra (C4C) held a public meeting to kick off aircraft noise as an issue in the ACT election with guest speaker Frank Pangallo, Mayor of Queanbeyan, a long-standing advocate for a curfew at Canberra Airport, and recently announced Independent candidate for the electorate of Molonglo.
It appears that the C4C group will be delivering the only [...]
Posted by Administrator on June 4th, 2008 | Categorized as Community Consultation, Education & Training, Environment, Housing, Molonglo, Molonglo, Multiculturalism, Older People & Aged Care, Planning, Social Services, Transport, Urban Services & Infrastructure, Water, Weston Creek
At the Public Meeting of the Weston Creek Community Council on 04 June 2008 - ACTPLA presented their revised plans for North Weston and Molonglo.
In part A of the meeting ACTPLA presented the revised plans.
In part B of the meeting the WCCC collected and collated community input based on what had been presented by ACTPLA [...]