Canberra on the web

No comparison to Naypyidaw? I’m dissapointed.

Brasilia was covered recently on the show Dan Cruikshank’s Adventures in Architecture.

He deemed it a failure. The gulf between the government staff and those working in the supporting services is immense. Similarities anyone?

Reading the FT, it doesn’t say we’re a suburb of Sydney, it says we are an easy mornings drive from Sydney. There would be very few Canberrans who hasn’t done a day trip to Sydney. (I’ve done two this year). Infact Sydney was a popular choice of day trip which that my high school would take students on.

Whilst yes we’re an easy target for the media to bash, I don’t think that was the articles true intent. Most Canberra bashing articles I have seen don’t actually speak with someone local (ok so their a diplomat, they still live here), they usually don’t get their fact straight at all (if they even give facts)

I always wanted to live in Canberra. It was no punishment to send myself there to be a cookery writer.(see Grauniad, Chalcot Crescent) I always wanted to marry one of those difficult, neurotic, brilliant ANU academics and live in a house down some leafy suburban street lined with English trees, and write cookbooks. It seemed the perfect life. It was not to be.

Regarding the Grauniad: I was banished here.

Regarding the FT: Brazilia turned out alright because they didn’t have the NCA telling them they had to stay a planned city.