"Canberra News, Views and Opinion"
[ 24 May, 2013 to 26 May, 2013. 24 May, 2013 to 26 May, 2013. ] 24 May Symmetries – The Australian Ballet @ Canberra Theatre Centre (until 25 May) Prime Time @ The Q – Queanbeyan Arts Centre, Queanbeyan (until 1 June) Luke Chiswell Launche...
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...
ACT Policing has released a facefit of the offender involved in an incident on Friday May 17 in which a man seriously assaulted a 52-year-old female receptionist and ransacked a professional office looking for cash and drugs. Police were called to t...
Andrew Barr is breaking out the champagne over this year’s Enlighten numbers: More than 115,000 people attended the free and ticketed events during ENLIGHTEN 2013, an increase of 290% on last year’s figure of 29,437, according to an independ...
I do believe I have a new favourite restaurant in town. Sure Copa got off to a bad start. But I figured the most scrutinised kitchen in Canberra was worth a go and so we set off last night to check it out on Woolley Street in Dickson. Arriving at 6....
I was offered comp tickets to last night’s opening of “… a most curious dream” and you’ll have to bear with a confusing review as it’s a somewhat confusing production. Written by Adam Hadley (or “Hadley” as he’s known to most in the Phoenix) and...
Two Canberrans featured in the Top 16 of series 2 of the Australian version of Project Greenlight on Foxtel’s MOVIE EXTRA. The last filmmaker standing from the final 8 gets to make a feature film with a $1m budget. On last nights first episode (hosted by ex Canberran Paul McDermott), John Rat...
* Is Civic really dangerous? Catherine Garrett and the Stateline crew spent last Saturday night checking out the nightclubs, the beat police, the taxi ranks – and talking to those out on the town. They survived to tell the tale. * Geoffrey Lancaster is Canberra’s Australian of the Year &...
A Right-wing Liberal from Queanbeyan, Matthew Mason-Cox, appears to be destined for the NSW Upper House after organising a putsch against sitting member Patricia Forsythe, according to this story in The Australian. The newspaper also related this to Pru Goward’s push for election, although I c...
The Canberra Times is rather excited by the news that a man who was involved in a high speed police chase on Wednesday died yesterday afternoon. David “DJ” McLaughlin shot himself in a car in Gungahlin which was surrounded by armed police. He was pronounced dead at the Canberra Hospital....
The date has been set! The RiotACT Bicycle Bar Crawl 2006 is going to take place on Sunday 17-SEP-06. We have a pictorial tour of last year’s fun. It will kick off at 10.30am, If you’d like to come along email johnboy@the-riotact.com and I’ll let you know the kickoff bar (in the in...
They’ve been emailing, ringing, and SMS’ing me the news and it just seems easier to pass on the news than not to. Konrad Lenz has a website it’s got so much Konrad on it that you’ll never need to actually go to a show. ...
The 3rd Round of Adventure Paintballs’ tourney series was held on the 10th Sep. With visitors from Sydney and Wollongong, the locals were keen to ensure they put up a good display for the visitors on their own ‘sand pit’. The fields had been significantly revamped from round 2 with...
The ABC is leading their national news site with a story on a sharp rise in home repossession in the ACT. Apparently low documentation loans from mortgage brokers are the main culprit as they’ve allowed silly people to over-extend themselves. It is, however, good news for folk looking to get i...
I can think of lots of things happening this weekend, including the RiotACT bicycle bar crawl, which I hope to see many of you at. So what are you doing for the rest of the weekend? ...
The ACT Greens have applauded their federal party leader’s moves to ensure the ACT Legislative Assembly has true legislative independence. Bob Brown is set to move a Bill today which would take the power to disallow laws passed by the Assembly away from the Federal Government executive. Greens...
Off the top of my head I can’t think of any two cities less alike than Canberra and Damascus. And yet the Canberra Liberal’s very own Steve Pratt is trying to scare us claiming “The bombing of the USA Embassy in Damascus the day after the 5th 9/11 anniversary commemoration was a st...
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