ANZAC Park, Toowong - 2019

Regarding Friends of ANZAC Park Toowong and this website, please contact:

Ms Deanne Morrison

Toowong

deannemorrison@bigpond.com

Mobile: 0419 226 416

Home: 07 3876 9295

Remembering the rich and complex history of ANZAC Park established in 1916, the Save ANZAC Park campaign of November 2010 - April 2011, that the park is a war memorial park and a green space for everyone -  it would be highly inappropriate for any individuals, groups, organised groups, politicians, or political parties to use ANZAC Park or the ANZAC spirit for political purposes or ambitions. However, the park is there for gatherings and for everyone to use, enjoy and respect.

ANZAC Park, Toowong, is now in the Brisbane City Council Ward of Walter Taylor. Please contact Cr James Mackay:

https://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/about-council/governance-and-strategy/lord-mayor-and-councillors/walter-taylor-ward

ANZAC Park is now in the State Electoral District of Maiwar. The Local State MP is Mr Michael Berkman MP:

https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/current/list/MemberDetails?ID=2155251911

The Toowong RSL Sub Branch (President Mr Kerry Gallagher AM):

https://rslqld.org/about-us/toowong-sub-branch?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-5Hhn7PK5AIVGaqWCh26Tw7pEAAYASAAEgLPYPD_BwE

Northern Link Tunnel Project, renamed Legacy Way, opened in June 2015

This blog was written by Ms Deanne Morrison a local of Toowong, Brisbane, Queensland.

I was one of the locals who ran the well-known and successful SAVE ANZAC PARK campaign from November 2010 - April 2011.

ANZAC Park, Wool Street, Toowong/Dean Street, Toowong/Mt Coot-tha Road, Mt Coot-tha was proposed and was intended to be used as a temporary carpark for the workers of the Northern Link Tunnel Project, renamed Legacy Way. Locals strongly objected to our war memorial park and green space being turned into a temporary car park.

I was the Legacy Way Community Liaison Group Member representing Friends of ANZAC Park Toowong (FAPT). Friends of ANZAC Park was an unincorporated group of locals which was established some years before the SAVE ANZAC PARK campaign. I resigned from this position in December 2012 and passed it over to another local. Legacy Way was opened in June 2015.

I moved to Brisbane, Queensland, in 1993 from New South Wales, and then to Toowong in 2007.

ANZAC Park was established in 1916 and named ANZAC Park on 25 July 1916. An Avenue of Honour was begun in 1917 and the remnants of the original rows of trees of different species and the palms which were added later, remain.

There is also Toowong Memorial Park, Sylvan Road, Toowong.