Lake Burley Griffin

Belinda, what are you doing on your own?

Kayaking in my bikinis on the Lake Burley Griffin in winter.

Oh, that's living.

That is living.

Are you not freezing? Not when you're going up and down waves and everything and fighting the wind.

Fighting the wind, I love it.

Belinda, have you heard the urban myth about the bodies in Lake Burley Griffin?

I've heard like there's bodies in every bloody river.

When you look at your media pace, like, you know, the assessment, it's a lot of challenging in yours for the week.

As I was running that last two hours, like in the last 10 minutes, I was thinking, this is so different to someone going out jogging around Yarra Flats or on the Barwon River or around Lake Burley Griffin.

It's just two hours is not the same two hours.

They're very different two hours because this was a really difficult run using all sorts of muscle groups, And with high heart rate going uphill for a lot of it, technical areas, like I'm so much sorer from this single track than I would have been if I probably ran like 35K jogging flat.

Question five.

In which Australian state or territory do you find Lake Burley Griffin?

In ACT.

Question six.

Stadium must advance funding rethink.

The renewed push for a city stadium, this time in Commonwealth Park, close to the shores of Lake Burley Griffin, offers an overdue opportunity to re-examine some of the fundamental questions at the heart of Australia's planned national capital.

After getting back from a trade mission to Europe, Chief Minister Andrew Barr said the idea of a stadium being built on land currently held by the Catholic Church was worth looking at.

A location of this significance also carries a high expectation.

But the ACT Chief Minister's call has been met with a warning that if a stadium tries to do all things to everybody, the experience is going to be diluted.

The prospect of adding cricket and AFL would guarantee more content at a new multi-purpose venue, but a larger playing surface would raise fresh questions over the viability of the site near Lake Burley Griffin.

A Canberra airport group push to build a venue by the lake has revived hopes of a stadium in the city, but factoring in a larger playing surface could see plans to eat into Regatta Point and an increase in costs.

Barr told ABC Radio a new stadium would need to hold 30,000 seats.

I'm not the sport minister.

I could never go and try to play hockey, you know, or row on Lake Burley Griffin or keep tabs on all the stats coming in overnight from, you know, Jess Fox in Europe or whatever it is.

So it's definitely two firm camps.

But I'm very pleased to say, I mean, that I can't believe my luck camp.

He pointed to the Adelaide Oval redevelopment as the perfect example.

of what would happen if the Canberra Airport owners are successful in their bid to get a stadium on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin.

Canberra Airport Chief Executive Stephen Byron is in talks with the Catholic Church to buy the Archbishop's former residence at Regatta Place, with the view to giving the land to the Federal Government to have a stadium built by 2030.

A redeveloped Adelaide Oval has brought the city back to life on game days and for concerts.

Inside, Canberra Liberals leader Mark Parton was sitting in Christchurch's new toasty and warm stadium on the other side of the ditch.

It's a stadium that inspired Canberra Airport to investigate building one next to Lake Burley Griffin, and they've even employed the same architect.

Canberra Airport Chief Executive Stephen Byron will announce on Wednesday morning po-- uh, Populous will do the concept design and feasibility work for the stadium they propose to be built on the Archbishop's former residence in Commonwealth Park.

Populous has been involved in some of the biggest stadiums around the world, including Christchurch, Parramatta, and a re-redesign of Wembley Stadium in London.

You know, does that ring a bell?

Yeah, Lake Burley Griffin.

Lake Burley Griffin.

Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, they just, they got the gig.

They designed a grand geometric bush capital integrated with natural topography and artificial lakes.