Weston Creek Soccer Club is making it known that they’re moving on the greenfields of Molonglo:
The club previously known as Weston Creek Soccer Club has unanimously voted at its Annual General Meeting to rename itself Weston Molonglo Football Club.
“This is a huge step forward for the Club,” Club President Chris Brown said.
“It signifies our expansion [...]

Today as I trawled through The Riot Act to pass the time and I read about Zed’s impending coup against Gaz and a religious conservative displacing a secular moderate, I came across some posts about the October 2012 ACT Election.
Reading them, I was reminded of Philip Pocock. Remember him? The qualified and registered psychologist who had interesting [...]

I have heard that the Molonglo development has higher standards that guides home owners and builders to have a more energy efficient home through double glazing or using an insulated slab.
Is this correct?

Let’s face it, at the price of land in the Molonglo development people there are going to be using wood fires for ornamental purposes rather than cheaping out on heating.
But it’s probably symbolic Zed Seselja is promising to overturn the Government’s ban on the things in the new development:
ACT Opposition Leader Zed Seselja announced today [...]

Last night the Pirates’ Stuart Biggs (Molonglo) lead us to the Hellenic Club in the City to show us how a pirate rocks Canberra in Lego.
Stuart’s priorities included: Improved rail access to Canberra, cultural hubs, a re-energised bus service, police respecting privacy, government transparency, open government, the internet, artists, cars following motorcycles at a safe [...]

Last night the Greens’ Shane Rattenbury (Molonglo) came down to Duxton to strut show off his lego skills.
Shane’s priorities included: Community gardens, quality landscaping, quality housing, good insulation, a mosque, religious tolerance, cycle paths, a very fast train, a clean lake with live fish and triathlons, gay marriage, a covered canberra stadium in the city [...]

The Lego Challenge kicks it up a cog tonight with the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and Greens candidate for Molonglo Shane Rattenbury coming down to show us what he can do.
Last election Shane wowed us with his Sim City skills so we’re looking forward to a good showing (no pressure mind you).
It’s running from [...]

The ACT Assembly elections on 20 October 2012 are now only a few weeks away.
The Inner South Canberra Community Council (ISCCC) is holding a Meet the Candidates night to allow you to put the questions on the issues that matter to you.
Come and tell the political parties what you think about the issues [...]

Last night Labor’s Meegan Fitzharris (Molonglo) exercised her right as a Lego donor to get us up to Gungahlin’s Siren Bar (where we were pleasantly surprised to find a passable jambalaya on the menu).
Meegan’s priorities included: Happy, Healthy, Connected, Learn, Prosper, Contribute, improving the Gungahlin main street and Linear Park, A huge healthcare facility, childcare, [...]

Last night The Greens’ Alan Kerlin (Molonglo) rode his bike down to O’Connor’s Duxton and had a go at our candidate challenge for the 2012 election (Al is also well known in this parish as “Gungahlin Al”).
I’ve been waiting to see a candidate work to a different scale and aside from his towering astronomer Al [...]

[Pictured a shark called Jeremy bears down on the wreck of the SS Seselja]
Last night Labor’s Mark Kulasingham (Molonglo) took a swing at our candidate challenge for the 2012 election.
Having gotten in at the donor stage Mark nominated Digress in Civic and we had a star studded audience of Labor luminaries filling out the audience, [...]

The Lego Challenge is coming to the end of phase 1 (Lego acquisition) with the Pirate Party getting in thanks to Stuart Biggs.
Stuart brought a another big box of basic blocks.
For those coming in late there’s two things going on here:
1) We need donations of Lego (or Lego contributed for return on a by-the-kilogram basis [...]

The Lego Challenge keeps gathering pace with the the ladies now represented by Meegan Fitzharris.
Meegan’s been pretty strategic in her contributions bringing; people, doors and windows, and girls doing science.
For those coming in late there’s two things going on here:
1) We need donations of Lego (or Lego contributed for return on a by-the-kilogram basis as [...]

I would like independent candidates who intend run in the seat of Molonglo to contact me so that I may be able to inform them of issues and meetings that they may want to know about.
Nominated candidate info will not be publicly available on Elections ACT website until 26 Sept.
Please email me:
Austin Lynch,
Vice-President Old [...]

Simon Corbell has announced there will be no wood fired heating in the new Suburbs of Molonglo (Wright excepted) on air quality grounds:
“While the 2011 Air Quality Report highlights the excellent air quality in Canberra, annual monitoring has identified that smoke from domestic wood heaters is the most significant source of air pollution in Canberra,” [...]

Simon Corbell has proclaimed the new suburb names downstream of the dam to be Denman Prospect and Molonglo.
“Lord Thomas and Lady Gertrude Denman held key roles in the birth of Canberra and I believe commemorating their name is a small token of our appreciation of their lasting work,” Mr Corbell said.
“The name is a link [...]

[This is the text of a letter from the office of Joy Burch MLA, Member for Brindabella, Minister for Housing, to me.]
Dear Mr [name],
Thank you for your email of 19 April 2012 regarding the lack of bus services to and from Oaks Estate, Queanbeyan, NSW.
Minister Burch has asked me to acknowledge receipt of your correspondence [...]

Simon Corbell has announced his thoughts on where the big shops are going to be in the new Molonglo development (known to planning nerds as a “community focused group centre”).
He’d also like to get yours.
“The Molonglo Valley is an exciting new development for the ACT and it is imperative that we get the views of [...]

Who is it in ACT roads that comes up with new road designs? Drove through Molonglo the other day along Cotter Road to discover that the alignment has changed and it now heads through the middle of the two new suburbs of Wright and Coombs towards Uriarra road. To get to the Cotter and suburbs [...]

The Canberrra Times brings word that RiotACT’s own Gungahlin Al (aka Alan Kerlin) is throwing his hat into the political ring as a Green candidate for Molonglo.
With the Greens hard up against it to hold Caroline Le Couteur’s seat (kindly calculated by neutrals to have roughly a snowball’s chance in hell) a new high profile [...]

Territory and Municipal Services are letting us know they’re attacking beautiful willows near Oaks Estate to leave a blasted, but more authentic moonscape behind.
“The ACT Government has committed $1.5 million toward the cleanup of Willow debris, Willow control and river restoration work in identified priority areas,” Mr Hughes said. “This funding has been provided in [...]

Simon Corbell and Gai Brodtman have announced “Molonglo Valley Plan for the Protection of Matters of National Environmental Significance”.
This plan, which underwent a rigorous strategic environmental assessment by both governments, reflects the ACT Government’s Molonglo and North Weston Structure Plan for urban development in east Molonglo.
“This strategic assessment of the Molonglo region under national environment [...]

Elections ACT has announced their redistribution of electorates in the ACT for the 2012 election.
Crace and Palmerston are being shuffled into Ginninderra, further splitting Gungahlin. But the lunatic plan to split the Inner North along Northbourne Avenue with Turner, Lyneham and O’Connor smashed into Belconnen, has thankfully been consigned to the dustbin of history.
The Augmented [...]

The Canberra Times has the odd news that despite no word appearing on the Liberals website Zed Seselja and Steve Dozspot are going to try to swap electorates at next year’s election.
Mr Seselja has represented the inner Canberra electorate of Molonglo since being elected in October 2004, despite living just across the border in Brindabella.
The [...]

Elections ACT have announced their planned changes to the ACT’s electoral boundaries:
Ginninderra could become a 7-Member electorate and Molonglo could become a 5-Member electorate under major changes to the ACT Legislative Assembly electoral boundaries proposed by the Augmented ACT Electoral Commission, ACT Electoral Commissioner Phillip Green said today.
After considering 23 public objections to the [...]

The Greens’ Caroline Le Couteur is celebrating some success for her calls that buses should run through the under construction suburbs of Molonglo to ensure new residents don’t succumb to the siren song of car ownership.
The Greens have outlined a sustainability strategy for Molonglo which includes:
- Bus-only priority routes on arterial roads to City/Barton/Russell
- Park’n’ride [...]

One might be forgiven for thinking that the urban lakes of Canberra were universally loved.
But it turns out the Greens don’t like them and are celebrating the decision to scrimp on Molonglo and not give that development water amenity.
“The Greens have been calling on the Government to rule out a big new dam in the [...]

Simon Corbell is asking for the community to get involved in planning for the second stage of the vast Molonglo development.
“The community is invited to come and discuss the draft framework and see how their suggestions have been included.
“With its focus on the Molonglo River corridor, this is a very special part of Canberra and [...]

The ACT Electoral Commission is proposing changes to the ACT’s electoral boundaries.
Specifically:
– The suburbs of Palmerston and Crace be transferred from Molonglo to Ginninderra; and
– The portion of the district of Molonglo Valley north of the Molonglo River be transferred from Ginninderra to Molonglo.
A pdf of the proposed map is online, as is the reasoning [...]

Last night the Greens’ Caroline Le Couteur announced she’s asking the government to budget a feasability study (so a million miles from actual action) for a “cycle highway” linking the new conurbation of Molonglo to civilised lands.
(On the basis that Greens get their sense of humour surgically removed on entry to the Legislative Assembly building [...]

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The ACT Planning and Land Authority is asking for you to come along and have some input into the planning of the new Molonglo region:

A community display and forum will be held this Thursday on the planning for the next suburbs to be developed in Molonglo Valley.

Chief Planning Executive of the ACT Planning and Land [...]

In the wake of the Molonglo asbestos debacle Jon Stanhope has turned to his troublesome Auditor General to find out what went wrong:
Chief Minister Jon Stanhope has written to the Auditor General asking for a review of the procedures used to test for contamination at the site of a planned pond in Molonglo, after tonnes [...]