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Government boosts Ginninderry land offering with NSW acquisitions
The ACT Government has acquired two extra parcels of land in NSW for its joint venture Ginninderry development, adding nearly 500 blocks to the master-planned cross-border residential project.
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Development threat to local platypus
Canberra Times: Letter to the Editor: 30 Nov 2020
The platypus is rare, elusive, and under threat. Picture supplied.
Re: "Platypus sightings drop nearly 25 per cent" (canberratimes.com.au, November 22).
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Ginninderry cards should be laid on the table
The Canberra Times Editorial NOVEMBER 5 2019
The massive housing development at Gininnderry in west Belconnen remains a joint venture in need of an explanation.
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Ginninderra Falls should open soon if nearby land rezoned for development, says owner
Jasper Lindell, Hannah Sparks
The owner of the long-closed Ginninderra Falls says she is "busting" to get the site open again and a time frame proposed by the developers of the Ginninderry project could be too slow.
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'An outrage': Community raises concerns over Parkwood's impact on Aboriginal, natural sites
The ACT government's "develop everywhere possible" mentality is jeopardising Indigenous cultural and natural sites near the Ginninderry development, according to submissions on the project.
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Conservationists concerned about bushfire risk at future Ginninderry development
Canberra Times 10 April 2019, by Finbar O'Mallon
Sections of the future cross-border Ginninderry development could expose the residents to increased bushfire risk and force developers to expand a bushfire buffer zone into Ginninderra Falls, conservationists have warned.
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Yass Tribune: When will we heed the warnings, Yass Valley?
Letters to the Editor: 4 April 2018
The recent Tathra fire is a sobering warning about the risks to life, property and fragile ecosystems under climate change.
Canberra felt the effects of catastrophic fire in 2003 and, following the 2009 Black Saturday fires in Victoria, the category “catastrophic” was added to the fire danger index.
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