16 September 2010

50% expansion of the ACT Honour Walk

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Mr Stanhope has announced that the ACT Honour Walk, currently home to 40 plaques, is picking up another 19:

    — The Royal Military College, Duntroon
    — War hero, Corporal Ernest Albert Corey
    — Landscape developer, Mr Charles Weston;
    — Former Director of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, Dr Robert Boden;
    — Parliament House architect, Romaldo Giurgola;
    — Plant scientist, forester and landscape architect, Lindsay Pryor;
    — Inaugural Commissioner of the National Capital Development Commission, and war hero, Sir John Overall;
    — Editor-in-Chief of The Canberra Times, Jack Waterford;
    — Renowned sculptor, Jan Brown
    — Respected poet, Rosemary Dobson;
    — Prominent local business leader, John Mackay;
    — Former ACT Senator, the Honourable Margaret Reid;
    — Canberra’s first Chief Justice for the ACT Supreme Court, Sir Richard Blackburn;
    — Respected ecologist, Dr Jill Landsberg;
    — Esteemed local Ngunnawal Elder, Agnes Shea;
    — International squash champion, Ms Heather McKay;
    — Marathon champion and healthy lifestyle advocate, Mr Robert de Castella
    — Wheat breeder, Mr William Farrer; and
    — Business entrepreneur and philanthropist Mr Terry Snow.

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qurios said :

Agnes Shea should be punished for perpetuating a lie, she is a Wiradjuri woman. Just ask her brother at Tumut who is quite happy accepting awards as a Wiradjuri Elder. Can someone please explain this anomaly??

I can, qurios, but it’s complex. You might want to do some research into Indigenous people’s kinship structures: some of the answers you seek are there. The rest are in terms of societal structure generally and ‘divisions’ within ‘countries’.

Agnes Shea should be punished for perpetuating a lie, she is a Wiradjuri woman. Just ask her brother at Tumut who is quite happy accepting awards as a Wiradjuri Elder. Can someone please explain this anomaly??

Terry Snow. For services to the ACT through ending flight training access to his shopping mall (though if you squint it can be mistaken for an airport).

captainwhorebags2:17 pm 17 Sep 10

Can somebody check the zoning permits for these plaques before Snow decides to build a multilevel carpark, bulky goods warehouse and five office blocks on it.

toriness said :

facet said :

A plaque on all their houses.

lol!

Double LOL

shadow boxer12:47 pm 17 Sep 10

John Mackay seriously ?

Chief of an organisation that totally failed to plan for it’s own future and turned Canberra from Australia’s hidden jewel into a weed ravaged dustbowl.

All the while (from what I can see) cosying up to his mate Stanhope, visiting private boxes and functions and lording over a huge sponsorship bucket of money to be distributed as they see fit.

I wouldn’t hire him to water my garden…

facet said :

A plaque on all their houses.

lol!

A plaque on all their houses.

Yes friends, you can’t spell dishonour without honour.

Jack Waterford for services to drinking and inaccurate and non-sensical based commentary. Wouldn’t p*ss on his ‘star’

Holden Caulfield10:17 pm 16 Sep 10

I thought Jack Waterford was bad enough, but Terry Snow, FFS!

Terry Snow and Sir Les PattersonJack Waterford?

Is Stanhope playing “You scratch my back, I scratch yours, lets put up a plaque to celebrate”?

Mully for services to road safety.

Terry Snow? 0_o

The bloke who Little Johnny gave the airport to in return for services to the Liberal Party?

Who next? Kate Carnell for services to Canberra Hospital?

surely there’s a spare spot for ‘renowned RA editor’?

Yes, I was a little disappointed I’ll admit.

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