NATIONAL TRUST OF AUSTRALIA Heritage in Trust
(ACT)
August 2014
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The Bunker today Peter Dowling
The West Block ‘Bunker’ and the Cable Girls The May edition of Heritage News contained a short article by Peter Dowling on the West Block ‘Bunker’. Here, Peter expands on the story. A small, innocuous and often ignored building in Canberra’s Parliamentary Triangle has quite a remarkable story to tell. The building is located in the West Block curtilage and today is used as an electricity substation and a place for the staff of the main offices to park their bicycles. During the Second World War this small building, tucked away behind the main building which once housed the Prime Minister’s Department, was known by its occupants as the ‘Bunker’. Cont p2
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