Canberra slums haunt Causeway as families struggle
Read about a Canberra family of eight living in a Causeway two bedroom house with no hot water and a wood stove, paying rent, buying on hire purchase, and facing limited options. Neighbors and officials debate whether slum conditions should persist, with calls for better housing and relocation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hopital
Canberra
Causeway
Kingston
Civic
National
Ite
Queanbeyan
Yugovlav
Homme
Department of the Interior
Chit Burgun
Burguy
Causeway Moss
Young
Nowra
St Vincent de Paul Society
Jim Fraser
Australia
Department of the
NCDC
Dent
ANU T
Burgun
Ron Weaver
Salvation Army
Red Cross
Moorelands estate sale near Canberra opens 1927 auction
A Queanbeyan poster promotes a May 7 1927 auction in Woodgers and Calthorpe’s rooms for 91 blocks of Moorelands estate along Uriarra Road near the Federal Capital Territory. The sale, amid a rising Queanbeyan property boom, targets freehold Torrens title land with deposits and monthly payments, tied to the Parliament opening in Canberra. The Moore family, long prominent landholders, began subdividing in 1925. 749 blocks have sold since, with about 120 acres remaining for development and a suburban shopping center planned.
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Uriarra Road
Queanbeyan
Canberra
National Capital
Woodgers
Calthorpe
Duke of York
Moorelands
Act
Richard Avenue
Skye
Frederick
Ernest
Arthur
Federal Capital Territory
Wip
Pariment Howe
Crest Road
Parliament House
Commonwealth
Richard Moore
Townview
Stormway Road
Lorn Road
Assucra Row
Munro Road
Moore
Bruce Moore
Willismaydale
Dunoon Station
Limestone Plains
Yarrowlumla
Australia
County Cavan
Ireland
Cotter and
Murrumbidgee
Urita
Queanbeyan ‘Moorelands
River Kwai Memorials and War Memories Shared
A long survey of the River Kwai dead and the Thailand Burma Railroad, detailing POW losses, cemeteries at Kanchanaburi, and the legacy for Australians and other nationalities. It notes 16,000 POW deaths, the bridges, and the somber tremors of visitors who walk to the bridge and pay homage.
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Lampard
Batalion
AIF
Kanechanabari
Job
Channex
Rangoon
Singapore
Hongkong
Kanchanaburi
Peace Corps
Ows
Kwai
Chong Kae
Thai State Railway
Tom
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Watc Air bin
Chifley
the Causeway
Anc
Parlwent Howe
Causeway Mess
Freddie
Interior
National Capital Development Commission
Ncpc Sys
Department
Weaver
By Breffin O'Rourke
Anbeyan
Paige
Breffin O'Rourke
Peter Land
Bangkok
Java
Stange
Priwmers
AIP Pie A. Proetar
Imperial General Headquarters
Asia
Pacific
Thailand
Schumedius Brave
Ivan L. ©Ellerich
Fochman
Kanchanayburi
E. J. Britwell
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