Yarralumla

Grass-lined light rail tracks around Parliament House and down Adelaide Avenue have been swapped for drought-conscious gravel in revised plans for the extension of the line to Woden.

A substation planned for Yarralumla has also been moved to Deacon after public backlash and the speed limit for southbound motorists on Capital Circle would be lower.

The completed environmental impact statement for the major transport project showed.

Infrastructure Canberra released the final documents on Tuesday, more than a year after the draft was released for public comment, and the agency's consultants considered two hundred and thirty unique submissions.

While the change from green track to an embedded track with gravel finish introduces a change in visual character relative to the draft EIS proposition, landscape design would soften these effects through native tree, shrub, and grass planting to maintain a vegetated corridor within the State Circle verge and Adelaide Avenue median, the statement said.

The extension would still have grass line tracks on Commonwealth Avenue, south of Lake Burley Griffin, the updated plans showed.

Attraction power sub-substation, first proposed for the Yarralumla side of Adelaide Avenue, has also been moved to the Deacon side in the updated plans after submissions had raised concerns about amenity, environmental impact, and local flooding.

These concerns were reinforced through a petition submitted to the ACT Legislative Assembly following its exhibition period, highlighting strong local opposition to the proposed site.

In Brisbane, 20 Shamrock Street in Gordon Park sold for $1.47 million, a four-bedroom house.

And in Canberra, 6 Turner Place in Yarralumla sold for $2.425 million.

But then when we look at the most affordable end of the market, in Sydney, 702 of 93 Auburn Road in Auburn sold for $511,000.

That's a three-bedroom apartment.

Yeah, so you sort of, for that sort of blue chip location, you're looking at the inner south.

So that sort of covers off Redhill, Forrest, Griffith and Yarralumla, as well as Deakin as well.

It's a small market.

It is, you know, a really strong market as well.

Yeah, so for that sort of blue chip location, you're looking at the inner south.

So that sort of covers off Redhill, Forrest, Griffith and Yarralumla, as well as Deakin as well.

It's a small market.

It is a really strong market as well.

The Birrarung law was a Victorian state law, so that final approval happened at state level.

But to hear what that final step sounds like federally, here's audio shared by the Office of the Governor-General from Yarralumla in Canberra.

Under Section 58, I'm given the power to assent in the Crown's name, and that's, that, that then brings these, uh, laws into effect.

And then comes the signature, the final formal approval, the moment a bill becomes an act.

Yes.

We were having dinner at our house in Yarralumla in the ACT in Canberra and...

Not the big house, right? No, not the big house, no.

But Fiona was saying, you know... that bastard Brian Haradine, you know, Senator Haradine from New Zealand, how come...