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A Guide for New Googonians. 2021
3 Welcome to Googong! 4 Googong Display Village 5 Your local shops 5 Public transport 6 Schools and childcare 7 Integrated Water Cycle System 8 Our event calendar 9 Community garden 10 Stay in the loop! 11 Googong’s local sports teams 12 Everything you need 13 Googong’s parks and open spaces 14 Googong Dam and Foreshore 16 Googonian wildlife 18 Streets, parks and playgrounds 19 Let’s speak Googonian
Welcome
to Googong!
As Googong’s community manager, it’s my job to help you get settled here
in Googong. I’ll help you get to know your fellow Googonians and introduce
Hi there, you to the town’s many community groups. I live in Googong too, by the way,
so you can be sure I’m passionate about our wonderful community and
my name’s beautiful town.
A good place for new residents to start is the Googonian Gazette – our
Sam. quarterly newsletter that provides you with an update on the township and
advice on community matters, events and opportunities. So be sure to
keep your contact and email details current with me to ensure you receive
your copy. We also host residents-only events which you will be notified
of via email.
So, if you’re a newly minted Googonian, I’d love to hear from you! I work from the
Googong Sales Office on Courtney Street Tuesday to Friday from 10am to 3pm.
So feel free to call 1300 446 646 for a chat, or to organise a time to meet in
person. Alternatively, you can email me at community@googong.net
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Googong
Display Village
With 19 The display village hours are
11am-4pm Saturday to Wednesday
• Ideal Building Solutions
• JD Homes
homes to unless otherwise noted below.
• McDonald Jones Homes
explore the • Achieve Homes
(two display homes)
(two display homes)
Googong • APA Homes
• Thrive Homes
• Rawson Homes
Display • BBS Homes (two display homes – open 7 days)
Village is the • BLD Homes • Vogue Construction
largest in • Burbank
(two display homes – open 7 days)
There are 15 builders who make up
the Googong Builders Guild and all
the region. • DJ Homes offer a large range of house and
land packages for sale. There is no
• Dixon Homes
obligation to build with any of these
(open weekends only)
builders, but they are a great place
• Exceed Homes to start looking.
• G.J. Gardner Homes
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Your local shops.
Most of the five
neighbourhoods that
make up the township of
Googong will have a local
shopping centre.
Googong North Village Centre construction and will eventually
opened in the town’s first feature the town’s major shopping,
neighbourhood with an IGA entertainment and wellness
supermarket, liquor store, precinct. The towncentre is
Gorman & Co. pub, cafe, hair salon, proposed to include two major
beautician, Our Place Childcare, shopping supermarkets as well as
Domino’s Pizza, Club Lime gym, retail shops, cafes, restaurants,
GP clinic, physiotherapy, dentist,
a Community Centre, fire station,
vet, pathology services, discount
library, secondary school, and
pharmacy, a real estate agent and
more. It’s an exciting new direction
a Community Centre.
for the township which will provide
Googong’s second neighbourhood, employment, entertainment and
Googong Central, is under major shopping opportunities to
Public transport.
QCity Transit provides public
and school chartered bus services
from Googong. There are local links
to ensure you can access your
desired destination in Canberra
and Queanbeyan.
For further information please
visit qcitytransit.com.au or contact
the traveller information line on
02 6299 3722.
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support the growing town.
Schools and
childcare.
By the time the town Googong Town Centre in Googong
Central. NSW Government have
is complete, Googong will confirmed that the public primary
school will be open for students for
be home to two secondary Term 1 2023.
and two primary schools. We’re also providing early childhood
education and day care options for
the township. The Anglican School
Our town’s first school – The Anglican
Googong has an early learning
School Googong – welcomed its first
facility for children aged from three
students in 2015, and since then
years through to Pre-School age.
has grown to around 400 students
Further information can be found by
from ELC (Pre-School) to Year 10.
visiting: googongschool.nsw.edu.au/
Eventually, the school will teach
ourschool/early-learning-centre.
children from Early Learning all the
way up to Year 12. The first Year 12 Our Place Early Learning opened
cohort will graduate in 2023. in 2018 at Googong North Village
Centre. This facility provides long day
The Anglican School Googong is
care options for children from birth
co-educational and open entry, and
to five years of age. For details, email
has already welcomed students from
googong@ourplace.education or
across Googong’s catchment areas,
phone (02) 6299 2510. You can also
including Queanbeyan,
follow them on Facebook.
Jerrabomberra and Canberra.
There are a number of home-
For further details visit the school’s
based childcare providers in the
website at GoogongSchool.nsw.
township. Contact Communities@
edu.au, or email the school directly
Work – commsatwork.org and/or
(enrolments@tasg.nsw.edu.au)
Queanbeyan Family Day Care –
with any questions. You can also
qprc.nsw.gov.au/Services/
follow them on Facebook.
FamilyDay-Care for details.
We’ve gifted two school sites within
If you’re a parent of a very little
Googong township to the NSW
one, join other local parents for the
Government – the first for a public
pram walking groups and playgroup
primary school and the second site
that meet every week. Our
for a public secondary school. The
Community Manager, Sam, can
primary school site is located adjacent
fill you in on the details. Email her
to the Village Centre in Googong
at community@googong.net
North and the public secondary
school is located adjacent to the
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Integrated Water
Cycle System.
Following several years of testing
and commissioning, the Googong
Integrated Water Cycle system
Queanbeyan River
commenced reticulation of recycled flow direction
Potable water source
water within the township from
1 December 2020. Potable
storage
Recycled
Recycled water is used for watering storage
Excess recycled water discharged Recycled
Googong’s public open spaces, as to Queanbeyan River storage
well as delivering recycled water
back to every home in Googong for
RECYCLED NON-POTABLE
non-potable uses such as watering POTABLE
gardens and flushing toilets,
TER G
WACYCLIN
using the ‘purple pipe’ network. RE NT
PLA Landscape irrigation
Excess water meets stringent Potable water used only
for internal potable water
environmental guidelines for uses (shower, taps, basins,
kitchen uses)
discharge to waterways. The recycled
water complies with the Australian Roof runoff
collected in tanks
Guidelines for Water Recycling.
Googong’s Integrated Water Cycle
(IWC) system was recognised with Recycled water and rainwater
for non-potable residential uses,
plus irrigation of public
a Federal Government Grant of open spaces
$5.1 million for its innovative
WASTE WATER
approach to water efficiency and Water efficient appliances
to reduce water demand
urban design. Googong Township Pty
Ltd (a joint venture with Peet Limited
and Mirvac) has invested a further
$133 million into the state-of-the-art Green Building Council of Australia Excellence in Concept Design, and
infrastructure, which has been gifted awarding Googong their first 5 Excellence in Southern NSW Regions
to council to own and operate. Star Green Star – Communities and ACT Development in 2011.
rating in the ACT/NSW region. In
The system will reduce potable The reticulation of recycled water at
2020 Googong was awarded the
water use at Googong by about Googong is the culmination of almost
prestigious UDIA NSW Award for
60% and recycle over half of two decades of visioning, planning
Best Masterplanned Community,
Googong’s wastewater. Googong and implementation. We are pleased
will be so water efficient, its 18,000 and Excellence in Regional
to have partnered with QPRC in the
residents will use less water than Developments, as well as being
delivery of this significant piece
just 6,500 residents in an average awarded the Property Council of
of infrastructure and applaud the
Australian community. Australia’s ACT Development of the
residents who have recognised the
Year Award. Googong’s innovative
Innovation and sustainability have sustainable lifestyle and community
approach to urban design was
underpinned the vision for Googong, benefits that the township of
recognised from the foundation years
which was recognised by the Googong provides.
winning the UDIA NSW awards for
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Our event calendar.
Events at
Googong
seem to be
hitting the
right note,
not just
with our
residents,
but with Googong’s events are great
opportunities for you to introduce
the wider your family and friends to
the township.
community Googfest, our free Googonian music
in the festival, is held every year at Rockley
Oval on the first Saturday in the first
Canberra school term. Then there’s Boogong,
region. our frightening-and-free Halloween
event which falls on the Saturday
closest to Halloween in October.
Be sure to also check out our other
regular events, such as our kite-flying
day Kitefest (on Fathers’ day) and
the Googong Rural Fire Service Open
Day (October). Our Googong township
Facebook page is another great way
to stay informed about happenings in
the town.
While these are free public events,
we also have exclusive resident-only
activities and events too, like our
residents cocktail party, GooGala, our
Mothers’ Day Pamper Party, and more.
So it’s important to keep your contact
details current with our Community
Manager, Samantha. You can email
her at community@googong.net
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Community garden.
Googong’s first community garden
is located on Helen Circuit, adjacent to
Montgomery Rise.
The Googong Community Garden If you want to be a part of the Googong
is managed by the community. Community Garden, jump online and
join the Googong Community Garden
The garden features plots for
Facebook page.
Googonians, including a special area
for our little Googonians to plant Not on Facebook?
and play.
Then just email the co-coordinator at
There’s a BBQ and picnic area for googongcommunitygarden@gmail.com
our community gardeners to meet
and there has been keen interest for
swap meets to share produce, seeds
and conversations between like-
minded gardeners.
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Stay in the loop!
If you’re on social media, there are a few
groups you might like to join.
The Googonian Gazette We’re also on
Our residents newsletter, Googonian Instagram
The Googonian Gazette, is printed Gazette Tag your images of life at Googong
quarterly. A copy can be picked from with #GoGoogonian – we’d love to see
THE GOOGONG COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER – ISSUE 25 – AUGUST 2020
the Googong IGA Supermarket, Gorman & Co
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SUGERMAN
what you’ve been up to.
BINGO PLAYED
or it is emailed to our database and TRIVIA GOOGONG
and more GIGS
available on our website. If you have
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one of our issues (or if you’d like to SUMMER
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update your details so you receive an
email copy), contact our Community
Manager, Samantha, at
community@googong.net.
Facebook groups
Googong township provides updates and health and wellbeing activities.
on the town’s progress from the A great way to stay connected with
developer, as well as advice on events your fellow neighbours.
and activities of interest to residents
and the region. The Dogonians page includes events
and activities for our four-legged
The Googong Residents Association friends. The Googong Notice Board
is a great way to get involved with focuses on community events.
the community and have your say on
issues affecting residents. Googong Mumma’s Exercise Group,
Googong Mums and Bubs, and Jerra/
The Googong Playgroup meets weekly Googong Pram Walking and Exercise
and offers many different activities for Group are must-follows for any
children. It’s a great way to connect Follow us
Googonian parents.
with other Googonian families and googong_township
offer social connections for children The Googong Community Garden
and their families. keeps the green thumbs in the
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community active.
The Googong Seniors group fosters googongtownship
connection through social and Googong Buy Swap Sell is a must for
cultural events, adult learning, any bargain hunter or de-clutterer.
10Googong’s local
sports teams.
Googong The Googong Hogs Aussie Rules Club
is based at Googong’s Rockley Oval.
is already The Googong Hogs Netball Club also
home to a plays in the region. To find out more
about the clubs, home games and
number of more, visit googonghogs.com.au
local sports Tigers Junior AFL teams play at
Rockley Oval. Visit www.tigersclub.
teams. com.au for more information.
Googong Monaro Panthers Football
Club (soccer) have games for boys
and girls U5-U18 as well as men’s
and women’s games. There are also
day time programs for 3-4 year olds.
Their home ground is Duncan Fields.
Visit monaropanthers.com.au for
more information.
Queanbeyan Junior Cricket plays at
Googong’s Rockley Oval – details can
be found at queanbeyancricket.com/
site/juniors
Off the field, you’ll also find
swimming and aerobics lessons
in Club Googong; walking groups;
a choir; martial arts groups; yoga;
boot camps; a dance school; tennis
school; craft groups; seniors group;
and there are more activities and
groups being formed every week.
11Everything
you need.
What’s planned for
We want to • A purpose-built water and
sewerage system that delivers the future?
make sure recycled water to every home for
toilet flushing and garden watering,
As development of Googong
continues, you can look forward to:
Googong is as well as providing irrigation for
parks and open spaces. • A local shopping village in each
a great place • Eight local playgrounds are
neighbourhood.
to live. currently open, including an all-
abilities playground.
• Googong’s Town Centre will
be located in our second
So, in addition to the all the local • Three bike pump tracks. neighbourhood, Googong Central,
streets and utility services you’d and include at least one major
• Two tennis courts.
expect, we’re spending an additional supermarket, retail shops,
$283 million to increase Googong’s • Six netball courts. businesses, cafés, restaurants,
amenity. a library, community centre, fire
• A swim school with a 25m indoor
station and a proposed public
pool and outdoor kids splash-deck.
What’s in our first secondary school.
neighbourhood? • Rockley Oval and Duncan Fields
already host cricket, Aussie Rules, • NSW Government have announced
You can enjoy all of these amenities soccer and cricket games. that work will commence on
right now. Googong’s public primary school
• Two dog parks for four-legged
in 2021, and open for students in
• The Anglican School Googong residents and their two-legged
Term 1 2023.
accepts students from Early owners to enjoy.
Learning to Year 10, and will grow • Recreational facilities including
• Gas, fibre to the home and mobile
each year till the school eventually eleven playing fields, ten tennis
phone coverage make cutting-edge
extends to Year 12 in 2023. courts, a regional playground,
tech and modern convenience par
skatepark, pump track, thirteen
• Upgraded local approach roads for the course in Googong.
neighbourhood and local parks,
to benefit both Googong and the • Established network of walking an indoor pool and sports centre,
Queanbeyan region were completed paths, cycleways and bush tracks. and a network of over 15km of
in 2020, including duplication of Old
• Googong North Village Centre walkways, and bike paths and
Cooma Road, and the extension of
includes an IGA supermarket, liquor bush trails.
the Edwin land Parkway. Additional
roadworks are planned for the store, Gorman & Co. pub, a café,
• Ecological waterways and ponds.
intersection of Lanyon Drive and hair salon, beautician, ‘Our Place’
the Monaro Highway, streamlining childcare, Domino’s Pizza, Club • Habitats for protected native
connectivity between Googong, Lime gym, GP clinic, physiotherapy, species.
Queanbeyan and the ACT region. dentist, vet, pathology services,
• 196 hectares of gardens and
discount pharmacy, a real estate
open space, including 45 hectares
agent, and a community centre
in Googong Common.
that is managed by Queanbeyan-
Palerang Regional Council.
12Googong’s parks
and open space.
Eventually, The largest park in Googong –
Googong Common – is a 45-hectare
Parks for people, parks
for pooches.
23% of parkland and ecologically restored
chain of ponds that will meander The parklands at Googong will also
Googong through the heart of the town, acting
as Googong’s ‘green lungs’.
provide you with a place for sport and
active recreation, as well as quiet
will be In developing the parklands, we will
places where you can simply enjoy
the nature around you.
dedicated to be revegetating degraded areas with
native species. Native grassland will
We’ve already opened two separate
parklands be protected, along with habitats for
other threatened species. A good
dog parks for our four-legged
friends, with a dog park adjacent to
and open example of this can be seen in the
regeneration taking place in the area
Rockley Oval, and another adjacent
to Duncan Fields that includes a
spaces – around Montgomery Creek.
large pond.
Currently, there are three playing
that’s almost fields, eight playgrounds (including
as much
an all-abilities playground), two
tennis courts, six netball courts,
space as in and a pump track ready for you to
enjoy. But ultimately, the town will
Centennial boast eleven playing fields, ten tennis
courts, six netball courts, a regional
Park in playground, skate park, pump track,
thirteen local parks, and indoor pool
Sydney. and sports centre, and over 15km of
walkways, bike paths and bush trails.
13Googong Dam
and Foreshores.
Just a short drive down
the road from Googong,
you’ll find the dam
and surrounding
conservation area.
If you’re into fishing, hiking, trail The area is also an important refuge
running or mountain biking, you’ll for native plants and animals. Keep
fall in love with this beautiful an eye out for the incredible wedge-
place. It’s been described as one You can delve into the history of the
tailed eagles that circle the skies
of the country’s best inland fishing historic London Bridge Homestead
over the Foreshores.
locations. And whether you’re on and London Bridge Arch, a natural
foot or on a mountain bike, you’ll find Googong Dam is a water catchment limestone arch formed by Burra
trails of varying difficulty and length, area for the ACT region’s water Creek over thousands of years.
so you can enjoy a day out in this supply. Icon Water, who own and
stunning natural setting, whatever
manage the dam, allow public access
your fitness level. To discover more,
to the water and foreshores for
grab a copy of the Googong Dam
recreation, but there are restrictions
Trails brochure from our Sales Office
to this access. It is important that
on Courtney Street.
residents respect these restrictions
The dam foreshores is also a dream so that this beautiful asset continues
location for a picnic, with designated to be available for us all. See the
BBQ areas overlooking the scenery chart on page following for what is
of the dam and surrounding bush. and isn’t permitted.
14Dogs are not permitted in the Dam
and Foreshores area, and swimming,
wading and petrol powered boats are
not allowed in the water catchment
(Googong Dam). Fishing, kayaking,
sail boating and other activities like
biking, walking and x are permitted.
While you can’t swim in Googong
Dam itself, in warmer weather
you can swim at nearby Cascades
or White Rocks Reserve, in the
Queanbeyan River just below the dam.
Maintaining the quality of the water
in the reservoir is paramount,
and Googonians will be asked to
respect these rules whilst visiting
Googong Foreshores to ensure the
protection of the water supply and the
surrounding natural environment,
and to ensure that public access
is maintained.
Opening times:
The northern end of the dam is open
8am-8pm during daylight saving
months; and 8am-6pm during
non-daylight saving months.
The southern end of the dam
closes an hour earlier: 8am–7pm
during daylight saving months and
8am–5pm during non-daylight
saving months.
It is an offense to visit the area
The following MUST be observed by all visitors: outside of these times, even on foot.
Please note: Gates are closed during
periods of high fire danger.
For more information:
Visit the Ranger Station on
Googong Road or phone the rangers
on 02 6207 2779.
15Googonian wildlife.
As a Googonian, you’ll
regularly see and interact
with native species given
the wonderful natural
surroundings of Googong.
Planting local native species is a Pink-tailed Worm-lizard
great way of encouraging native
During planning for Googong, a large
animals, especially birds, into your
population of this vulnerable species
yard. You can contact the rangers at
was found living in the eastern part
Googong Foreshores for information
of the town site.
on suitable plant varieties on
02 6207 2779. These little guys — that look like
snakes, but aren’t — are threatened
You might notice a family of Wedge- by habitat loss and modification (i.e.
tailed Eagles that soar above the removal or disturbance of bush rock,
town and nest just inside the eastern fertilizing leading to dominance
Conservation Area. While on the of exotic pasture grasses, weed
top of Nangi Pimble a species of encroachment and heavy grazing),
Casurina have been planted to so as a town and as a community,
Native animals that you might see in
support a community of vunerable we’re doing our bit to protect them.
the Googong area include kangaroos,
Glossy Black Cockatoos. We have established a 52Ha fenced
wombats, possums, gliders, lizards,
snakes, turtles, insects, spiders and Conservation Area along the eastern
a myriad of birds. boundary and established a $1 million
fund to create a sanctuary on a 30Ha
site to the south-eastern boundary.
16The Pink-tailed Worm-lizard is about our achievements to identify
harmless. If you think you have and protect this species, which could
encountered one or are unsure, be devastated by the impact of pet
please call the Googong Rangers cats that roam.
on 02 6207 2779.
Cat runs are an excellent way to keep
A Googonian cat your cat healthy and happy, and the
is an indoor cat area’s wildlife safe from harm. We
ask that Googonian cat owners keep
Googong is surrounded by rural
their cats indoors at all times.
properties, conservation areas and
protected nature parks. This poses *On average, each roaming pet cat kills 186
several unique risks to local cats, reptiles, birds and mammals per year, most
of them native to Australia. Studies that used
and risks to the natural environment,
cat video tracking collars or scat analysis
that cat owners should be aware of. (checking what’s in the cat’s poo) have
established many pet cats kill animals without
Cats are prohibited on public land bringing them home. Keeping your cat securely
which is zoned for ‘environmental Foreshores, a refuge for native contained 24 hours a day is the only way to
prevent it from killing wildlife.
conservation’. This includes the wildlife, roaming cats are likely to kill
parkland adjacent to the Googong native fauna, particularly birds and The Canberra Times: One cat, one year,
110 native animals: lock up your pet, it’s a
Foreshores, as well as the Pink lizards, within both Googong and the
killing machine, 14 May 2020.
Tailed Worm-lizard Conservation Foreshores.
Area. Local Rangers have warned us
Googong Township, in association Injured wildlife
that if they find cats in these areas,
with The Molonglo Conservation
they are likely to be controlled (shot, If injured or orphaned wildlife are
Group, have established extensive
captured or poisoned through fox found within Googong Foreshores,
conservation areas to the eastern
baiting). Additionally, cats roaming you should alert the rangers at the
and south eastern boundaries of
onto neighbouring private properties ranger station on Googong Road.
the town for the protection of the
face danger of being controlled by If injured or orphaned wildlife are
Pink-tailed Worm Lizard. You might
the landowners (shot or baited). found outside of the Foreshores,
notice high fences which define the
you should call Wildcare on
Cats are known to have a disastrous boundaries of these areas. This rare
02 6299 1966.
impact upon native fauna.* Given the lizard is listed as ‘vulnerable’ in
proximity of Googong to the Googong Australia. We are enormously excited
17Streets, parks and
playgrounds.
The streets
• Lovegrove Park is one of two
exceptions to the Indigenous naming
and parks strategy. It was named after Troy
Lovegrove who was seven years
of Googong old when he died from Acquired
Immune Deficiency Syndrome
North have (AIDS). Troy’s story is told in the
documentary “A Kid Called Troy”.
been named Troy dedicated his short life to
raising AIDS awareness and
to reflect the • Yerradhang Nguru, in the
understanding. Troy’s father Vince
also wrote a book about his family’s
heritage of Aboriginal language of the
Ngunawal people, means
experiences.
the area. ‘Gumtree Camp’. It was a place
to rest and stop for a while
• Aprasia Park is named after
one of its ‘residents’, the Pink-
tailed Worm-lizard (Aprasia
under the shade of a gumtree.
The names include a mix of gender, parapulchella) mentioned earlier
Yerradhang Nguru is the name
age and social status: property in this booklet. A population of
of the park on Aprasia Avenue
these tiny creatures lives in a
owners are recognised alongside (recognisable by it’s distinctive
Conservation Area east of the park.
farriers, housemaids and drovers; gumnut climbing structures),
children, including young infants are which is sometimes know as • Rockley Oval is named after a form
remembered; and the women and Gumnut Park. It includes BBQ of women’s cricket that was played
men who farmed, taught, traded, lived facilities, ping pong tables, iconic in the late 1800s; and the streets
and worked in this region have streets and challenging play equipment, around the oval are named after
and sculptural seating. the women, coaches and even
named after them.
ball runners who played the sport
• Munnagai Woggabaliri (Ngunawal
A number of Googong’s parks and locally and who represented the
for ‘Come Play’) is the playground
places of significance have been region competitively.
located within the Montgomery
named by the traditional custodians of
Rise area. • Duncan Fields is named after the
the land, the Ngunawal and Ngambri.
Duncan family (David, Nellie and
• Bunburung Thina (meaning small
Examples include: David Coupar Duncan) who operated
lizard track) is the name of the
bakeries in the area from the 1930’s
walking trail that will eventually
• Nangi Pimble is the highest point until 1980. They also contributed
runs through Googong Common.
on the Googong site, adjacent to to many charities and were heavily
It recognises the vunerable Pink-
Old Cooma Road. It means involved in the Park Cycle Club and
Tailed Worm Lizard that has been
‘See District’. In times of Aboriginal the Tigers Football Club.
discovered along the eastern edge
preoccupation, hills such as this of the township. We have created For the stories behind the names
provided a vantage point to not only a Conservation Area for the of Googong’s streets, check out
see who was approaching but also to species here, and are establishing http://googong.net/handy-
identify other hill tops and pathways a Sanctuary on the south-eastern information/helpful-links-for-new-
in which to traverse the country. boundary. residents.php
18Let’s speak
Googongian.
Kayakable
Any amount of water capable of holding your kayak (see Googong Dam).
Googercise
Physical activity performed at Beltana Park, Googong Dam, Club Googong and in the natural parkland
surrounding Googong.
Neighbover
A common ritual in which Googonians invite the people next door around for dinner.
Enporched
Kicking back on the porch on a Saturday afternoon with a glass of wine, a good book, and absolutely no
intention of moving for the next several hours.
The Googenheim
The fridge door, after being decked out with your kids’ latest paintings from school.
Technogoogs
Googong residents who enjoy the fast internet speeds of the township’s fibre to the home network.
Googojoy
A unit used to measure happiness. Measurements amongst Googong residents are off the charts.
E.g. After a day spent fishing at the dam, Gavin’s mood climbed by approximately 470 googojoys.
Googongalicious
Used to describe food or wine prepared during a Googonian social gathering.
The Googong Off Switch
A day spent playing in Googong’s parks and outdoor spaces – your kids will be out like a light come bedtime.
Noogonians
Residents new to the township, still wide-eyed and smiling all the time (though to be fair, that doesn’t tend
to go away).
Googong Fun-gineers
Our landscape team who are also responsible for our playgrounds and parks.
Free-range kids
Googonian children who enjoy the wide outdoors and friendly neighborhoods of the township.
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