So what did we build this city on?

S4anta said :

Hugh Lews said :

It was built on ngunnawal country…..all of you are tresspassing.

Sorry if the spelling is wrong, I dont know how those idiots spell it.

It’s not wrong to laugh..

Its not trepassing if you breed them out.

Please be joking…

in wollongong they sing “steel and coal”

but for canberra I would have to go with

we built this city ” on a plan walter stole form his wife” or at least took credit for

Not a history buff, but here goes…

“Syd and Mel’s grudging compromise”

Devonoian era conglomerate – or so my yr 9 science teacher (Speedy Eadie) insisted

According to the rest of the country it’s ‘Sex and Fireworks’.

Easily your best post.

Hugh Lews said :

It was built on ngunnawal country…..all of you are tresspassing.

Sorry if the spelling is wrong, I dont know how those idiots spell it.

It’s not wrong to laugh..

Its not trepassing if you breed them out.

WE built this city,
We built this city on politics and soul(x2)

Say you don’t know me, or recognise my face
I’m anonymous on RiotACT, its that kind of place
but Canberra’s ambience is fading, reality now winning the fight
even here too many runaways – eating up the night

Parton talks to no-one,
who listens to the radio?
Don’t you remember?
We built this city
We built this city on politics and soul
We built this city, we built this city on politics and soul
Built this city, we built this city on politics and soul

Stanhopes always playing, wanky artistic games
Who cares he’s always passing on the blame
I just want to live here, into my old age
you can call me a dreamer, but this is my lifes stage

Scotty and Nige are getting better
I might turn on my radio..
Don’t you remember?
We built this city
We built this city on politics and soul!
We built this city, we built this city on politics and soul
Built this city, we built this city on politics and soul.

It’s just another Sunday, in a tired old town
Police have got the choke hold, or they would if they were around

Who ignores their children, walking down the street
Who cares if they mug you, they used to be so sweet
Don’t tell me I’m happy, ’cause we’re no bunch of fools
Looking for the old Canberra, now threatened by moronic tools.

Don’t you remember …

JBs talking RiotACT,
ev’ry Friday on the radio
Don’t you remember?
We built this city,
We built this city on politics and soul
We built this city, we built this city on politics and soul
Built this city, we built this city on politics and soul
Built this city, we built this city on politics and soul
Built this city, we built this city on politics and soul

Ok I was bored – sue me!

SORRY!

i didnt read enough posts to see that someone already ‘went there’.

It was built on ngunnawal country…..all of you are tresspassing.

Sorry if the spelling is wrong, I dont know how those idiots spell it.

It’s not wrong to laugh..

Bull and Shit

We built this city on a sheep farm, so I guess that’s Baa and roll?

Now we sound terribly New Zealandish.

…from the Stonefaced Literalist songwriting tradition?

and brushed concrete.

Class distinctions, political compromise, utopian sentimentality and the capacity of a significant portion of humanity to get excited by the idea of leaving the comforts of their existence behind with the express purpose of being a small part of building something from nothing.

S4anta said :

lethargy, red tape and government credit cards!

or

white and mission borwn decor schemes.

brushed concrete?

lethargy, red tape and government credit cards!

or

white and mission borwn decor schemes.

Damn! Now the tune’s stuck in my head…

Nambucco Deliria said :

“We built this city on Ngunnawal”

Too true.

“We built this city on Ngunnawal”

The 4 Ps: Politics, Pot, Porn and Pyrotechnics. Or at least that is how the rest of the country would think…

trevar said :

This city has had a long association with marijuana, so I concur that the city was partially built on ‘roll’, but it certainly wasn’t built on smack.

Skunk and roll then.

Funny I always thought Canberra was “dug” not built !

I grew up in Cabramatta, and Canberra’s reputation was as a source of marijuana-based drugs, not heroin. Heroin was quite heavily produced locally, so I think that graffiti should have been done back home in Cabramatta.

This city has had a long association with marijuana, so I concur that the city was partially built on ‘roll’, but it certainly wasn’t built on smack.

Skidbladnir said :

The illusory voluntary exploitation of the proletariat?
*beats Passy to it*

I thought passy self modded himself and left?

OT, migrants, arguments between sydney and melbourne over national capital, politicians?

The illusory voluntary exploitation of the proletariat?
*beats Passy to it*

Sausage rolls of course!

johnboy said :

Not the question Peter.

Jb, i know. But it was reference to a time in this town’s past where we had open spaces and sunlight in civic.

This town was built on a plan created by burley griffin, but half of the designs that he had envisaged for canberra were never implemented. Light rail, for one.

We either moved here or were born here, but Canberra seems to have lost the original friendly environment that i remember as a kid. Everyone hibernates in winter, and buggers off in summer to the coast. now we are starting to morph into a quasi sydney / melbourne equivalent.

Expat Victorians and Federal Money.

Volcanics and clay?

Not the question Peter.

still think the most apt graffiti that this town ever had was on the old griffin building – “export fraser, not uranium.”

I love that song