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Canberra

Strategy

The Canberra Plan


The Canberra Plan (2004) included an Economic White Paper, The Canberra Social Plan and The Canberra Spatial Plan.
Report

Rights-based reconciliation needs renewed action from Canberra

Much of the symbolic and rights aspects of the reconciliation process are being undertaken at the state, local and community level, rather than federally. Yet the commitment of federal government is vital. Without it, argue Sean Brennan, Vanessa Bosnjak and George Williams, the reconciliation process will not encompass the national acknowledgment of Indigenous peoples or...
Working paper

A 'most pressing problem': housing and the National Capital Development Commission


This paper examines the complex web of issues surrounding Canberra’s housing in the late 1950s.
Working paper

The accommodation of growth: Canberra's "growing pains" 1945-1955


This paper highlights the economic and demographic constraints which were placed on the Commonwealth Government in its role as the planner and developer of Canberra during the first decade after the Second World War.
Working paper

How the Canberra camel got its hump: the departmental board's plan, its origins and consequences


When the first peg was driven by King O’Malley on 20 February 1913 to start construction of Australia’s capital the work was based, not on the thoroughbred design of Griffin, but on a camel designed by a committee.
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