Lake Burley Griffin will play host to a festival of aquatic sports and fun next month that will also double as a fundraiser for Triathlon ACT member Kate Molineaux, who is recovering from serious injury.
The Greens have made an election promise of $150 million to make Australia’s rivers and waterways – including the often blue-green algae-blighted Lake Burley Griffin – clean enough to swim in again within the next decade.
Canberra’s lakes and waterways are a central part of life in the capital. As a child, my favourite thing to do as a treat was to hire a paddle boat on Lake Burley Griffin with my parents.
Clean-up Lake Burley Griffin Day is back for the fourth year running on Sunday 14 November from 9am to 12pm.
During National Recycling Week, 8-14 November, the public is encouraged to volunteer and...
A 29-year-old Kambah man who jumped into Lake Burley Griffin in the early hours of 28 December to evade police faced the ACT Magistrates Court on Saturday 2 January charged with a number of offences, including drive at police.
