O'Neill's Pub

On the bend in Woolley Street, Dickson.

Friday night in Dickson

Looking along Woolley Street.

Dickson Dumpling House

We had a family birthday dinner at the Dickson Dumpling House last night, and I can highly recommend the $20 banquet - there was far more food than we could manage in one sitting, and all of it delicious.

The restaurant is located in Cape Street, Dickson, at the end of Woolley Street.

Confucius in Canberra

Canberra has its own little Chinatown in the northern suburb of Dickson. Well, not much more than a single street, and not even all of that is Chinese. There's Italian, Thai, Indian, Vietnamese and a pub called 'O'Neill's', so it's a bit of a mix, but there are a number of good Chinese restaurants in Woolley Street.

And on the corner of Woolley and Cape Streets stands this statue of Confucius. Carved from limestone in the birthplace of Confucius, the statue was given to Canberra to mark the tenth anniversary (in 2010) of the Sister City agreement between Canberra and Beijing.

Telstra

490-496 Northbourne Avenue, on the corner of Antill St, Dickson.

Telstra, Australia's biggest telecommunications company (which was originally government-owned but has been progressively sold off, not necessarily for the better), occupies the building at the back of this photo (Telstra House). The building at the front - 496 Northbourne Avenue, which replaced the old Kodak House a few years ago, is tenanted by a number of mostly government departments, as far as I could find out with a quick search online, including CrimTrac ("CrimTrac is the national information-sharing service for Australia's police, law enforcement and national security agencies").