Sixties Classic Shops Set the Stage

On 24 April, Dickson Residents Group unveiled a 4th Canberra Tracks heritage sign for our suburb in the newly named Taglietti Square, made possible with support of a 2023-4 ACT heritage grant. Sixty attended. Professor Peter Stanley graciously emceed. Both the Minister for Environment and Heritage, Rebecca Vassarotti MLA, and …

Join us! Planting Bulbs for Spring

On Saturday 17 June 2023, the Dickson Residents Group (DRG) will participate in the Floriade Community bulb planting. If you are part of the Dickson community and would like to join us – sign up to be a DRG member today or contact us! Thanks to the Dickson Baptist Memorial Church and City Renewal Authority for their …

Dickson Dazzles walk unveils new Canberra Tracks sign on Anzac Day

Heritage researcher/urban planner Jane Goffman led a group of 40 on Anzac Day, 25 April 2023, touring the historic landing ground of Old Canberra Aerodrome – as part of the National Trust’s Dickson Dazzles: Canberra’s Original Aerodrome (1924-1926) Heritage Walk. The walk began at the Heroes of the Air sign, on Dickson Baptist Church …

ACT Planning Review – our submission

For those interested in the ACT Planning Review & Reform Project, there were many submissions to the review, including from the Dickson Residents Group (DRG). Go to submissions 222-240, which the ACT Government uploaded to the web and which includes the DRG submission (PDF bookmark number 233).You can also read the DRG submission here.