Garema Place

Garema Place is a paved outdoor area in Civic, Canberra, Australia, with a number of shops, restaurants and cafes with outdoor dining. As a central point within the CBD, many community events including protests and festivals are held at the location. Garema Place was Gazetted as a city street in October 1952, when the disused Civic Centre railway station was removed from the site. The station had opened in 1921 as Canberra's second goods rail terminal when the Commonwealth railway line was extended from Kingston, but closed in 1922 when the rail bridge over the Molonglo River was washed away in a flood. The rail corridor ran along what is now City Walk and was preserved until 1950. At that time the National Capital Planning and Development Committee abandoned plans for a Canberra City railway, noting there were disadvantages in having a railway in the centre of a city. By the mid-1960s, Garema Place had been converted to a pedestrian plaza. Today, Garema Place and nearby City Walk are the location of Canberra's Multicultural Festival held each February and the Celebrate Canberra Festival in March. In 1963, then-Prime Minister Robert Menzies opened the nearby Monaro Mall (now Canberra Centre), which became the first in Australia to be fully-enclosed and air-conditioned with three floors. Due to the expansive nature of the centre and its association with the Garema Place and nea

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