Tim Ross is a big Canberra fan, especially as a self confessed design nerd extolling the stand out design of the ‘modernist’ city and visiting the capital for the Australian Institute of Architects annual Griffin Lecture.
Those who live in Canberra love it, are quick to defend it and want all the national icons well financed and operating for the good of all, and that means locals, interstaters and internationals.
But a niggling sore on the bums of the city is the intent to pull down and rebuild Anzac Hall at the Australian War Memorial – among a grab bag of redevelopment planned – and the members of the architects club are not happy.
Equally important is the Digital Transformation Agency – bet you didn’t know about that one – is planning to get the whole of Government skilled in the complexities of that digital stuff.
Set up in 2015 to manage change in the delivery of government services and bring them into the digital space, we can, according to Randall Brugeaud, the CEO of the agency, cope as it’s all going to be a lot simpler than we think.
