Which suburb will *win* the race to host a diplomatic precinct?

i didn’t know they had to be in a precinct. what about the random embassies in red hill etc?

What are those new ones called? Wright, Coombs and Somethingorother.

To be fair they should really be north-side.

I can’t believe no-one has suggested Nicholls

Parts of the Woden end of Deaking would be relatively easy to have put to use – there’s an Embassy for some such little known nation there already on the corner of Carruthers St

I knopw the Botswanan Embassy is pretty far south in Deakin. And there is a lot of land marked for embassies but not actually in use like Irans block of land in Yarralumla.

I just hope we do get more embassies here, i hate sending my passport away to get visas to visit the ‘stans for example.

Parts of the Woden end of Deaking would be relatively easy to have put to use – there’s an Embassy for some such little known nation there already on the corner of Carruthers St

Does it _really_ have to be in the ACT?

At the risk of being sensible, and therefore unsuited to posting on this threasd it would seem, I think if I were NCA I’d be taking a good long hard look at the large swathe of land that separates the current embassy zone from the lake, right around from behind the PNG HC to the open spaces behind the YMCA Yacht Club. I know some of the land is earmarked for a new lodge etc but there’s an awful lot left.

What they should be doing though is asserting their right to properly manage the territory by selecting a large block of Deakin and Forrest and declaring it an embassy zone, and booting out all the snooty hoity toity types who think it’s just so je ne sais quoi to live there…

I reckon Curtin will be next on the list…it’s a good pick location-wise.

Oaks Estate.

They should just timeshare the ones in O’Malley. Think of all the amusing combinations that would be possible.

Charnwood.

I hear there’s a good spot in the new Molonglo precinct that is suddenly not needed for its original purpose.

Knock down the Hawker flats and build them on that site.

Dear lord not Chapman.

The Causeway’s got swome free space.

Good call.

I’m sure Snowy would love to have them out at the airport.

Or Tralee. I hear that will be a nice place to live.

The Causeway’s got swome free space.

Hopefully Tuggeranong. It’s not like it’ll be any different.

I assume its got to be somewhere with existing clear land that can be re-zoned (ie they aren’t going to evict people from existing residential areas 😛 ). But also somewhere reasonably close in…

– Molonglo?
– Kingston?
– Yarralumla brickworks?
– Constitution avenue?

Put them in Dunlop – they’ll fit right in.