Telstra, NBN & Reid – notes from a friend of RRA
Experiences coping with the Byzantine state of broadband connection in Reid
Experiences coping with the Byzantine state of broadband connection in Reid
The 2018 Canberra and Region Heritage Festival: My culture, my story, devotes 16 days to the celebration of Aboriginal, European and natural heritage in and around our nation’s capital. Full details are available here…
The suburb of Reid is said to be the most intact 1920s suburb in Australia. This intactness is the primary reason for the heritage listing of Reid. To maintain the suburb’s integrity it is important to recognise the intrinsic design elements originally used – the ‘Design Vocabulary of Reid’.
Duncan Marshall to address AGM; Representations to Government re lack of enforcement; Illegal parking; Heritage Entry for Amaroo St, Reid for City Railway Remnant
The RRA AGM will be held at 7 pm Tuesday 13 March 2018, Mercure Hotel Canberra.
Guest speaker: Duncan Marshall
Topic: Can Reid survive with the city next door‽
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The Reid tennis Club has two free tennis events over the next few weeks. These build on a similar social tennis event in November 2017. Put in your diary 31 Jan and 18 Feb
The Australia Day Fireworks event will be occurring on Friday 26 January 2018 with event sites at Regatta Point and at Patrick White Lawns (lakeside of the National Library of Australia). Fireworks will launch from the central basin and from Commonwealth Avenue Bridge.
UNSW Canberra will alert the ACT government to its plans and financial requests for a potential expansion to Reid by the end of January next year. The Group of Eight institution and the territory government have signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at guiding discussions on the proposed development –Read article …
RRA’s new logo; Reid onwards to 2050; Government’s duty of care: Fix my street!
Changes that would encourage more people to subdivide blocks in the ACT’s older suburbs could be on the way, in spite of most Canberrans clinging to the dream of a quarter-acre block
Next meeting of the North Canberra Community Council is on 18 Oct 17 which will include a presentation on Watering the Garden City in the Age of Climate Change – National Water Week 15–21 October 2017
The University of New South Wales wants to redevelop part of the Canberra Institute of Technology’s Reid campus and a prime slab of land on Constitution Avenue into a second Canberra campus.