Monaro Street upgrade, Queanbeyan, concept plans.
A 40km/h speed zone is proposed for Queanbeyan’s main street, as part of a $15.5 million re-development of Monaro Street.
The speed zone changes from 50km/h to 40km/h are proposed in concept designs, released today (July 20), for Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council’s (QPRC) main street upgrade, due to start next year.
Upgrading Monaro Street is the third stage in QPRC’s CBD masterplan designed to improve the “amenity” of the streetscape and will include new footpaths, lighting, greenery and seating.
Council wants residents to “have their say” on the designs, as well the reduction in speed limit, which they say will provide “greater safety for road users”.
Louise Burton, from Wamboin, will head the ticket of six candidates.
Ms Burton, who is a mother and works in national security, says council needs to get back to basics.
“All on the ticket agree that our council needs to get back to roads, rates and rubbish,” Ms Burton says.
“To do that, we have come up with an imaginative yet pragmatic policy plan as the core of our group’s election platform.”
It’s the second time the Liberal’s have run a group ticket at a council election in Queanbeyan-Palerang.
Mark Schweikert.
Current QPRC councillor Mark Schweikert, who is also the ticket’s spokesperson, says the candidates are local Liberal Party members, pre-selected by the party’s branches in Braidwood, Bungendore and Queanbeyan.
Prizewinner Sally Simpson with her work “Fragile Equilibrium”. Photo: Cassandra Miller.
ARTIST Sally Simpson was the big winner last night (May 27) when Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council hosted the 2021 QPRC Art Awards at The Q Exhibition Space.
Simpson won the QPRC Acquisitive Art Award of $5,000 for her sculptural installation, “Fragile Equilibrium”, made of waxed animal bones, copper, steel and thread, which the artist says speaks to her of “loss, transformation and our uneasy relationship with the natural environment”.
A graduate of South Australian School of Art, Sydney College of Fine Arts, and the then ANU School of Art, she now lives on a small farm in this region. Her sculptures refer to totems, crosses, trees and grave markers and signify the sacred, symbolic and emblematic forms humans have used to express reverence and invoke awe and mystery.
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Riverside Stadium. Photo: Queanbeyan City Football Club.
MORE than 400 people have signed a petition pushing for female change rooms for football players that use Riverside Stadium in Queanbeyan.
The petition, started by Queanbeyan City Football Club (QCFC), calls on the Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council (QPRC) to approve plans for new change room facilities at the club’s home-ground.
With an ever-increasing number of girls and women playing football, QCFC president Zoran Duckinsoki thinks it’s about time females got their own change rooms and toilets at the field.
“One of the greatest barriers to women and girls participating in our game has been the lack of access to female only change-room within the community and we seek to change that,” Mr Duckinsoki said.