"Canberra News, Views and Opinion"
[ 22 June, 2013; 8:00 pm; ] Or is it City 2 Underground? Underground 2 City? 2 Underground City? I have no idea. What I do know is that it's a gig, happening at the Magpies City Club and if you don't have plans this Saturday you should prob...
The Roar has the wonderful news that the ACT Brumbies have become the first Australian provincial side since Queensland in 1971 to beat the British and Irish Lions. While the understrength Brumbies could only sub on ever greener players as the game ...
Katy Gallagher and Andrew Barr have the long awaited news that three new players are entering the Compulsory Third Party insurance market in the ACT: Three insurers: AAMI, GIO and Apia (the Australian Pensioners Insurance Agency) have been granted l...
ACT Policing is seeking witnesses after an aggravated robbery occurred inside the Tuggeranong Hyperdome Shopping Centre, Greenway yesterday afternoon (June 17). Around 12.30pm a man entered a manchester store within the centre and started looking a...
The Canberra Raiders have made a statement about what they’re doing with star player Blake Ferguson as he awaits trial: Canberra’s Blake Ferguson will be required to undertake an extensive alcohol management program during which time he will not be considered for selection. The Raiders Boar...
For your information Rioters: The ACT Government wishes to advise motorists and other road users that both northbound lanes of Eastern Valley Way, between College Street and Cameron Avenue, will be closed from 7 pm tonight, Wednesday 19 June 2013. The closure is to enable preparation for the reopen...
Shane Rattenbury has gone out on the front foot to let it be known the Auditor-General thinks efforts to be seen to be doing something to improve the lot of homelessness in the ACT can be signed off on: “The report found that there is significant difficulty in the agreed definition of homelessness...
Katy Gallagher and Andrew Barr have the long awaited news that three new players are entering the Compulsory Third Party insurance market in the ACT:
Three insurers: AAMI, GIO and Apia (the Australian Pensioners Insurance Agency) have been granted licences to offer CTP insurance to ACT motorists. T...
Chief Minister Gallagher has announced a new scholarship recipient: Chief Minister and Minister for Health Katy Gallagher, has presented the inaugural Peter Sharp Scholarship to first year Australian National University medical student Danielle Dries. “I congratulate Danielle Dries on being select...
The ANU are rather pleased (and quite rightly) that a book written by one of their professors about Australian sex lives has made the PMLA shortlist this year. Associate Professor Frank Bongiorno’s book The Sex Lives of Australians: A History has been shortlisted for a 2013 Prime Minister’s Lite...
The National Film and Sound Archive are celebrating the film making scene in Canberra and surrounds with two free exhibitions based around local productions. Tegan the Vegan is a colourful new addition to the Main Gallery exhibition. Tegan the Vegan is a short animated film made by Marisa Martin fr...
Are you (or do you know someone) under 25, creative, and would do some really cool stuff if you (they) could just afford to? Here. This is for you (or them): The first application round of the Creative Young Stars Program opened on Saturday 1 June 2013! Applications close at 5pm Australian Eastern S...
As the nightmare of an Abbott Government looms ever larger on Canberra’s horizon the ABC has the unhelpful news that the cardigan set have seen their wages grow 5.8% over the last year: The research by the Public Service Commission shows median wages grew 5.8 per cent last year. The increase ...
I came across this recently. I think it would be a fantastic idea for the use up Northbourne Avenue.
Imagine one day you driving on road, then one huge “moving tunnel” flying overhead, carring with hundreds of people, you may think it is dream, but it is true, soon this incredible Stra...
On a residential street earlier this morning, I noticed a girl making quite the effort in putting this together to make her affections known to MJW???
Whoever he is?
And will do anything…..
Quite a collections of cars out front, so now sure how many admirers he has?
[ED - Got an image of Ca...
ACTION buses have been given an award recognising the work they do to help the visually impaired catch buses. The Vision Australia Making a Difference Award rewards efforts made to improve accessibility of services to visually impaired people, which is something ACTION seems to do well. “We’re p...
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