Counter-Terrorism Theatre Comes to Belconnen

Benjamin Offices! You can’t blow up Benjamin Offices, they’re heritage listed – I believe that the citation reads: An outstanding example of dysfunctional civic architecture demonstrating the victory of architectural bad taste over function and form…

Are they still going to coincide this with the demolition of Benjamin Offices ?

Now that would be cool, except Canberra’s track record of blowing up buildings and not hitting bystanders is not so crash hot.

I thought the story in the CT this morning said they were going to evacuate one fo the government buildings near the interchange (my guess would be statistics or immigration).

Shops in the mall did get a memo round just over a month ago now saying there would be a practice emergency evacuation in the next 6-8 weeks (from then) so I wonder if this ties in?

Oh, are there still AFP in Canberra? I thought JWH has sent them all off to foreign parts.

All govt agencies in Belco are being evacuated. I doubt they would do westfield.

At least we have a day now – we got told “sometime between monday and wed” it would happen.

And they areplanning on evacuating Westfield.

I assume what OzChick says is a piss take, or a display of idiocy on a grand scale.

The Feds pay for this sort of thing

the Fire & Emergency Services Levy is paying for this…

Nooo, Dont let them know that.

Wouldn’t it be funny as, if some schmuck put a ‘dangerous looking device’, such as a bike lamp, somewhere in the bus shelter.

Might even be as funny as the one in Woden, where the local police decided to close the centre for a training run (Oh, sorry, because it was dangerous….)

We got a flyer in the mail yesterday advising residents in Holt and Higgins that they are going to practice on Ginn. High School.