"Canberra News, Views and Opinion"
[ 24 May, 2013 to 26 May, 2013. ] Morning Rioters, I hope you've all taken it easy this week and reserved your energies for the weekend ahead. Let's find out what you shall be doing! You know the drill: 1. Find suggestions I have missed....
Mayor Rattenbury has the happy news that The Green Shed (formerly Tiny’s) has handed over $10,000 to The Yellow Van: Minister for Territory and Municipal Services, Shane Rattenbury, will tomorrow present a cheque for $10,000 to The Yellow Van ...
Summernats have the intriguing news that they’re taking the show to Malaysia: Today in Kuala Lumpur Andy Lopez, co-owner of the Summernats, signed a joint venture with leading Malaysian motorsport promoter JPM Motorsports to stage a Summernats...
So bus riders. What do you think of the new shelters? How do they stack up against the old?
Do they keep the wind out? Can you see the bus coming? Are they cleaner? How comfortable are the seats? RiotACT wants to know.
Is it time to retire the tally room?
Yes, move with the [...]...
Minister for Territory and Municipal Services, John Hargreaves, has announced a new track on Mt Taylor for the south side walkers. “The new trail is approximately 860 metres in length and incorporates design elements to divert water runoff into surrounding vegetation, and water control feature...
Todd Carney is already entering the language. Just a few minutes ago I went to the smallest room in the house to have a Carney. The Herald Sun is now reporting that his former partner in crime, Steve Irwin, (the League player not the stingray annoyer) is dropping a bucket on last year’s events...
This in from police media today: 1. Bad girls from Gowrie are in strife after a pair of alleged aggravated robberies in Tuggeranong. Three slightly older males in their company are “assisting police with their inquiries”. 2. Yesterday’s lost silver BMW has now been found, along wit...
I was heading Eastbound on Southern Cross Drive just before 6pm this evening (23rd July) and saw the aftermath of what appeared to be a single car accident on the other side of the road (Westbound) – this was the intersection of Southern Cross Drive and Chave Street (Holt)
What had caught my e...
The Bureau of Statistics released some data today on social trends. And every other media outlet with a moron for editor/producer in Australia is making much of this data and its significance for their local area. We’re not. Guess what? Canberrans remain better educated and higher earning, on...
Around lunchtime today (Wed) I noticed two Police vehicles exiting Aussie Junk (the rubbish recycling equivalent to Revolve located at Mitchell) and several people (presumably Aussie Junk workers) congregating on the footpath outside. Next a TV film crew arrived (ABC I think, their vehicle had R...
The Shadow Minister for Housing, Jacqui Burke, is taking up cudgels for the residents of Causeway who can’t get any maintenance done on their soon to be bulldozed houses, and yet can’t get official confirmation it’s going to happen. Outrageous? Or bulldoze ASAP? ...
[First filed: July 22, 2008 @ 08:57 Second filing: July 22, 2008 @ 16:45] Nothing online as yet but Raiders players, Bronx Goodwin and someone else, were allegedly involved in a scuffle at the All Bar Nun last night at around midnight. The allegations are that Goodwin king hit a patron who was attem...
So far just one today: 1. A thief with balls of brass is alleged to have entered a house in Fadden on Monday night while the owners slept, picked up a laptop, a mobile, cash, and then grabbed the keys for the silver 3-Series BMW which they then made off with after getting it out of [...]...
A friend of mine, John Barilaro, is running for Queanbeyan City Council and has come up with the following political slogan:- ‘No slogan! Just hard work for our community’ I thought that was a ripper. I have suggested to Gary Kent, a candidate for Molonglo, who stands at 160cm, that his...
Hi All,
I am wanting to find out some more information of right of way at light intersections as I cannot find enough information on the tams website to clarify my concern.
I was driving to work this morning and nearly ran a kid over at a light intersection in Queanbeyan. I was sitting at the ligh...
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