Commissioned text from writers for public sculpture...

i want a canberra that has an artsACT that commissions writer who can actually string words together and understand commas and things like that! who chose that gould person?? they are four pretty awful pieces of writing i suspect would have failed in the old HSC. i guess we’ll get the 50ft jim morrison statue from that; and deserve it!

have to re-name northbourne avenue ‘love street’ but. and we can ride the snake to the lake. neat.

Park on City Hill. And when you get a ticket, point to all of the people parking all over the parklands outside the Woden cemetry. They NEVER get booked.

Two quite different birds there Thumper –
Spangled drongo – Dicrurus bracteatus notable by “fish tail”
Currawong – Strepera graculina notable by white patches on wings and base of tail, plus loud bell-like “currawong” call.

Beats dragging the whole graffiti debate out again anyway…

Do we really need this? I get quite annoyed with Mr. Nohope and cronies wasting our money, and then gloat about budget surpluses… fiscal mismanagement I say..

SIEV X memorial on City Hill! 😉

Then we can feel really bad about ourselves on the way to work each morning.

Actually, why can’t we have something really inspiring like those giant crossed swords they have in Baghdad?

@stung:
Genuine (street) art is fine… but having ones house and property tagged (I had my house hit recently) doesn’t classify as “art” in my books and I’d much rather have bland bricks on my house.

“I want to see that $1 million spent on fixing the health system, bringing rates down, filling potholes in the road or getting rid of graffiti instead… (i think you get the idea… there are far more important things that a million dollars can do)”

Getting rid of graffiti? Yea great idea, let’s make Canberra a little bit more bland and boring shall we… Cover the locals artwork with grey & biege buff paint, yea that’s really a good look.

oh.. and you can paint pretty pictures round the edges of the new carpark

more civic parking.. i’m getting fed up with, after having purchased a montly pre-paid ACT Government parking ticket, having to park either on the other side of town or park at the Canberra Centre because all the $7.50/day parking spaces in civic are filled by 8:30..

A gigantic Galah