The pioneering Canberra Burns Club celebrates 100 bonnie years

The statue of Robert Burns remains on site in Forrest, the old club now replaced by office buildings. It is the second oldest statue in Canberra, after Sir Bertram Mackennal’s sculpture War, better known locally as Bellona, the Roman goddess of war, which was displayed outside the Albert Hall for many years, but now stands in the grounds of the Australian War Memorial.