The September Gungahlin Community Council meeting was held on Wednesday 10 September. Special guest for that meeting was Dr Maxine Cooper, the ACT Commissioner for Sustainability. Dr Cooper presented on the ACT State of the Environment Report, and took questions on sustainability issues.
It was also the GCC Annual General Meeting.
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Gungahlin Community Council
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The launch of the ACTCOSS Election Statement for the 2008 ACT Legislative Assembly Election occurred at 10:00am Friday, 15 August 2008 in the Reception Room, ACT Legislative Assembly.
In the lead up to the 2008 ACT election, candidates and political parties will be setting out their priorities for Canberra’s future. The Fairness Challenge alerts candidates of [...]
The August GCC meeting was held on Wednesday 13 August.
The meeting included:
A report on GCC presentations to all ACT Government Ministers on 4 August.
Sergeant Bob Muir reported on current issues facing the Gungahlin Police Station
Update from CORC (Canberra Off Road Cycling) to provide facilities in the Gungahlin Region
Update on new suburbs of Crace and Casey
Update [...]
On Saturday 2nd August 2008 the ACT group “Campaign for Civil Unions” organised a rally in support of Same-Sex Marriage Rights.
This rally was in recognition of the fourth anniversary of the annual National Day of Action for relationship equality. In August 2004, the Federal Government, with support from the then-Labor Opposition, united to rule [...]
GHD Pty Ltd has was engaged by the ACT Government to undertake the community consultation process on the future use of eight former school sites.
The eight former school sites (now termed “community sites”) are Cook, Weston Creek, Melrose (Chifley), Village Creek (Kambah), North Curtin, Holt, Mount Neighbour (Kambah) and Rivett.
The Belconnen Community Council asked GHD [...]
The July GCC meeting was held on Wednesday 9 July.
Unfortunately the booked guest speaker, Peter Martin (Economics Reporter for the Canberra Times) was unable to make the meeting due to unforeseen work commitments.
The meeting covered:
the surprise announcement by the Stanhope government that Light Rail had been given priority as an infrastructure project.
details of the submission [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
On Friday 16 May it was announced that a cull of kangaroos at the Belconnen Naval Transmission Site would proceed.
The plan was to subdue up to 400 eastern grey kangaroos by darting them, then once subdued, euthanise them by lethal injection. Previous plans in favour of tranlocating the animals was rejected on the basis of [...]
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