Woden’s 60th is soon to come! While you wait, here’s a snapshot of Woden 60 years ago!
In 1960 the Canberra Times reported plans for the Woden District to be home to 60,000 people.
▪️ May 1962: the contract was awarded for engineering works in Canberra’s new satellite city. It included roadworks, curbs, gutters, sewerage, drainage and water supply for 447 residential blocks, a school and a shopping centre in Hughes.
▪️ September 1962: Gordon Freeth, Minister of State for the Interior, named the suburbs Hughes and Curtin after Prime Ministers William Morris Hughes and John Joseph Curtin.
▪️ December 1962: the first contract for building houses in Hughes was awarded.
Over the following years, Woden’s suburbs were released and many of our parents bought land in the restricted auctions which provided a single block to people who had not held a residential lease in the ACT in the previous two years. By the early 1970s, the Woden Town Centre was underway and public service offices and community facilities such as Phillip Oval and the Phillip Pool continued to be built.
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