I took this on Saturday afternoon in Fyshwick as it struck me as a true “images of Canberra” photo.
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I need someone to look at my leaky hot water system (1985 vintage, off-peak electric, living on borrowed time) and I couldn’t see a previous thread on the topic. 
So, recommendations for a plumber please – quick, tidy, not interested only in selling me up to a new system with the biggest margin, and not [...]

Survey 2 for 2008 of the Nielsen radio ratings for the Canberra market have been released at http://www.nielsenmedia.com.au/en/pdf/mri/22/Canberra22008.pdf . This is just an overall market view (ie no shift or age/demographic breakdown etc) but interesting nonetheless.
In summary, 104.7 and ABC 666 both achieved the highest overall rating of 17.4, narrowly edging out MIX 106 at [...]

[First filed: September 05, 2008 @ 13:00]

Being privileged to work among the windswept canyons of north Woden, I have the opportunity to pass one of the Government’s sites for new public artwork nearly every day. What you see here is exactly how the site has been for the past three months – a half arsed, [...]

Some recent posts about the driving skills (or lack therof) in Canberrans mentioned the increasing number of cars about town with blown headlights or brake/tail lights. I also notice that about 1 in every 10 cars in your average carpark have tyres that are marginal for tread at best or downright bald – especially on [...]

ABC online http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/19/2279226.htm reports the findings of a AAMI survey in wich 70% of Canberrans drive to work.  I expect the following extract will be used by various idealists in the ACT Government (hi John Hargreaves) to push for more punitive revenue raising measures to get more bums (literally and figuritively) onto ACTION buses:

 The survey [...]

Canberra (music) radio. Is it the pits or what? I know our market is comparatively small and that just about every station in Oz these days is formatted up the wazoo, but really…
Let’s look at the choices: Mix 106 – I have listened to it since it rose from the ashes of Kix 106 in [...]