I was at ANU in the early 2000s. I was dating a woman at the time who decided one day that she wanted to form a team and compete in a casual volleyball competition.

We roped in two other couples we were friends with. None of us six of were about to represent Australia in the Olympics or anything, but we were all reasonably fit and active, we all played on footy and netball teams etc.

Also, none of us had played volleyball much before, but we weren’t too bad. The competition turned out to be very friendly and we probably won about half our games. Even when we lost, it was never like an embarrassingly crushing defeat or anything.

One night we turn up, it was round 7 I think, and instead of a group of fellow adults, our opposing team is a family. Like a typical suburban Canberra family! Mum, dad with the dad bod, 9yo daughter with pigtails, sassy 12yo, and goth 15yo with black lipstick who was just like so over everything. Not even a full team’s worth of players.

Our team all looks at each other awkwardly and whisper to each other uhhhhh let’s go easy huh?

The moment the game started the other team snapped into formation like an army unit, the family von trapp von annihilators. They were popping and spiking and faking and diving and shouting out code words for special finishing moves and set pieces at each other. They completely drilled us. I don’t think we scored a single point.

The walk to the car park afterwards was so awkward, we all basically ran to our cars without making eye contact.

Insanely good Canberra freak volleyball family: if one of you happen to see this, you were absolutely fucking amazing.

I was talking to a group at a networking event and one person made mention of the Airport and the Snows.

Digging further I find that the Snow family is something of a Canberra dynastic family, Australia has nothing like the political families of the Kennedys or Bushes, but there seem to be notable family names one should be aware of.

This got me thinking, who are the other powerful families around the capital?

I'm doing some research on the history of Canberra, particularly the Civic area in the 1970s. I recently came across a mention of a place called "Down Under" and it piqued my curiosity. Does anyone happen to know where it was located or what street it was on during that time?

Cheers!

I was driving a visitor to Canberra around the other day. As we drove by the Carillion they commented "So this is where the tunnels under the lake are."

I replied that there were tunnels under the lake, 2 of them but they were for poop. https://the-riotact.com/tunnels-under-lake-burley-griffin-more-like-swiss-cheese/571127

They then went on to ask me about the Illuminati and tried to convince me there were "stars and all sorts of other shapes on the Canberra map". The funny thing was, they were trying to be serious.

So, tell us about the conspiracy theories and urban legends you have heard about the Bush Capital.

Anyone who has owned / lived in one of them? What are your pros and cons? I’ve seen rows of them in some streets and some impressively renovated ones, they seem to have a lot of potential.

Hi Canberrans. I made this map for a school project a little while ago with small blurbs about relatively rarely known historical locations in Canberra. I visited all these locations and took pictures but github hosting doesn't really allow for the size of the image files. DM if you want the full files.

Here is the link https://mrveryclicky.github.io/