Grasslands under threat as work starts on telecommunications tower
Construction of a 25-metre Optus and Vodafone telecommunications tower is underway on a much-loved native grassland on Limestone Avenue in Ainslie.
Residents
Developers want high density in Ainslie
Developers have applied to rezone land around Ainslie Football Club on Wakefield Avenue so they can build high density housing and commercial complexes there.
Ainslie Football Club wants change to Territory Plan.
The Ainslie Football Club is proposing an amendment to the Territory Plan so that a mixed residential and commercial complex can be developed on what is now recreation land.
New location for Anslie Tower
There are better locations but the ACT Planning and Land Authority has approved the construction of an ugly telco tower on the corner of Limestone Avenue and Quick Street.
Life in Ainslie – May 22
Like much of the Inner North, Ainslie is looking magnificent at the moment with its autumn colours. Taking the dog for a walk up Tyson Street I heard the sound of a cork being twisted out of a wine bottle and there in the gum trees were two pairs of …
Eleanor Gilbert
Eleanor Gilbert, BSc Hons (1950- ) filmmaker with an extensive research and ecological background. Her focus is to tell the stories, locate and document the pathways, which are leading out of the maze of oppression and the belly of the Australian genocide to the reinstated sovereignty for First Nations and …
Louise Lyon
My grandparents moved to Ainslie in 1939 where they lived for almost 50 years until they passed away. My mother, Enid Wheeler (nee Guard) spent her teenage years in Ainslie and returned in 1961 with my father and their four children. Her story is in the book. I grew up …