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Heritage listing a step closer for Flynn

Heritage listing for the Flynn school precinct moved a step closer from yesterday’s ruling in the ACT Supreme Court with an invitation to put fresh evidence into a new heritage nomination. While the Supreme Court Judge, Justice Burns refused the Flynn community groups the right to appeal the matter in the Supreme Court, community efforts [...]

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Childcare opens at Flynn

There have been some questions about the position of the John Flynn Community Group and the P&C on the childcare centre that opened at Flynn this week (16 January), so we have answered some of the more common questions here. 1. What has been the community’s response to the childcare opening? The initial reaction to [...]

Selective memory

What both Flynn Primary School and Perth Council Offices illustrate is the ease with which Australia’s modernist inheritance is held hostage to short-term politics. Doubtless in 60 years attitudes will have changed, and buildings such as these will be prized as brave modern ambassadors of Australia, but will Flynn Primary School still be around to see the day?

Updates

• National Trust supports the Flynn survey. See www.nationaltrustact.org.au/ #
• Canberra Times letters: Heritage madness #
• Canberra Times letters: Council's all-time low hits an architectural wonder #