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.
