Rond Terrace rumble heats up

from the photo I’ve seen the so called monuments look like 2 city office buildings.

Mr Evil- what’s Peter Stanley done that warrants your displeasure?

If Peter Stanley is against it, then I’m all for it.

Not much point objecting to the monuments wrecking the view when Anzac Parade itself is in a disgraceful state. The hebe beds are either empty or have tall weeds growing out of them. Strangely, those shrubs are long-lived – yet they’ve been replaced at least twice in the last ten years.

I’m more concerned about the traffic lights about to go up in the middle of the parade, than the monuments at the bottom (they will never happen, so don’t waste your energy protesting). Lights will wreck that vista. Interestingly, the NCA kyboshed the lights at the top of Anzac Parade about five years ago, but this time around the ACT Govt appears to have snuck them in.

We should have a national levy to pay for it!!!

When you’re talking about $21m for a few slabs of granite beside a sludgy pond I’d say the argument is pretty cut-and-dried. I’m certainly not against memorials per-se, but this seems like a collossal WOFTAM.

amaroovian said :

Isn’t that the point of that little building at the end of Anzac Parade called the Australian War Memorial? Does anyone really think that if one of these “prominent Canberrans” visited the AWM they would somehow manage to miss the WW1 and WW2 galleries and emerge only with knowledge of the post-45 conflicts and wars because they are the ones with statues on a roadside? Seriously?

errr… that’s their point.

Isn’t that the point of that little building at the end of Anzac Parade called the Australian War Memorial? Does anyone really think that if one of these “prominent Canberrans” visited the AWM they would somehow manage to miss the WW1 and WW2 galleries and emerge only with knowledge of the post-45 conflicts and wars because they are the ones with statues on a roadside? Seriously?

If self styled “prominent Canberrans” are objecting, then I tend to take the opposite view, just because.

For some background, here’s a piece from ACT Stateline which was broadcast late last year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8DRfmDA2rE