FROM bin collection to public transport to covid testing, here’s changing and what’s not for this Thursday’s (September 22) National Day of Mourning public holiday.

• ACT schools will be closed.
• Public transport will operate on a Sunday bus timetable.
• There will be no changes to bin collection services.
• Floriade will be open on the National Day of Mourning and a one-minute silence will be observed at Stage 88 in Commonwealth Park at 11am.
• All Access Canberra Service Centres will be closed including specialised centres in Dickson, Mitchell, and the Hume Motor Vehicle Inspection Station.
• Members of the public who had pre-booked inspections, assessments and appointments with Access Canberra for Thursday will be contacted by staff to reschedule their appointments.
• The Access Canberra Contact Centre will be operating under public holiday arrangements and will be open from 9am to 5pm. Outside these times, the Access Canberra Contact Centre will be still open to report urgent public safety issues like fallen trees and faulty traffic lights.
• Paid parking fees will not apply in ACT Government car parks due to public holiday arrangements.
• There will be minimal impacts to health services.
• Walk-in Centres will operate as usual, as will the COVID-19 clinic at Garran and the emergency department.
• Pathology collection centres will be closed and some community services will be ceased or scaled back.
• Treatments such as dialysis and critical cancer treatments will continue as usual.
• The COVID Care at Home (CC@H) phone line will be open as usual, however the Central Health Intake phone lines will not be operating. All impacted patients are being contacted individually to be rescheduled. Please do not contact Canberra Health Services about your appointment.
• ACT COVID-19 testing sites will have changed hours of operation on Thursday. The Mitchell testing site will operate at reduced hours from 8am to 12pm. The Garran centre will operate as usual from 7.30am to 9pm. The Kambah and Holt sites will be closed.
• The Housing ACT shopfront and Child and Family Centres in Tuggeranong, Gungahlin and West Belconnen will be closed. The Child Development Service centre in Holder will also be closed. Those with appointments on 22 September will be contacted to reschedule.
• All branches of Libraries ACT will be closed on Thursday, including the ACT Heritage Library. Return chutes at library branches will remain open.
• The Canberra and Region Visitors Centre will be open from 9am – 4pm.
• The Village Centre at the National Arboretum Canberra will be open 9am – 4pm.

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