"History will be kind to us, because we will write it"
[ 31 May, 2013; 8:00 pm; ] Canberra’s hottest bands and burlesque night, Tease and Tearaways, will be injecting you with its latest dose of live music and dance this May by bringing you the next in their event showcase – Leave Them With A S...
Shame shame! It’s fun to shout! Let’s shame some drivers shall we? If you see a parking attempt you think is worth a shaming at please send it to us at images@the-riotact.com. Remember to include the word parking in the subject and let us...
Rob, and I mix up the rugby ideas in Duxton, expound on matters rugby. The beer for review is the Forbidden Fruit Pear Cider. The music is by Fires in July. You can download it now. Our tips for this weekend are: Rob: crusaders, tahs, brumbies, forc...
Shane Rattenbury has annoucned that SITA Australia has won the contract to handle our garbage: A new contract has been awarded for the provision of domestic waste and recycling collection services in the ACT, Minister for Territory and Municipal Ser...
ACT Policing is now targeting road safety amongst heavy vehicle drivers and transport companies as part of Operation AUSTRANS. The operation is a joint effort across national police, transport and safety agencies which began yesterday (May 20) and w...
With Belconnen given to terrorism war games this week the ABC reports that, for those poor buggers stuck using our inferior public transport system, ACTION is going to operate the Belconnen interchange from Lathlain Street. Good luck with it. ...
August 25th: * The Stateline team wondered what it would be like for Vietnam veterans the week after all the commemorations. For many of the men, after the fanfare dies down, they are left alone with memories that they can only share with each other. One group meets every week in Queanbeyan for cof...
According to this media release and various signs up around the town centre, on Tuesday Belconnen will host a counter-terrorism exercise. This latest locally developed episode of the war on terror will see the Belconnen bus interchange closed for most of the day and relocated to Lathlain st; Benjami...
Senator Humphries is bemoaning a lack of knowledge surrounding Canberra history as his very own contribution to the History Wars. He does such a good job of telling Canberra history in his media release that I’m not sure we need any extra classes in schools. ...
ACT health minister Katy Gallagher announced yesterday that a proposed redevlopment and expansion of a drug rehabilitation facility in Fadden will not proceed. She cites “lack of agreement from the community” as one of the reasons for this decision. The fuss over the Karralika facility b...
As reported on The RiotAct last week, Triple J are now running their Unearthed competition on-line and it appears that the rest of Australia is noticing something that us Canberrans have known for years, that we have a decent quality music scene . Scouring through the various charts on Triple J̵...
I am running a “Buying and Selling on the Internet†class at Hawker College. For our last class, I wanted to produce a Top 10 list for online shopping. My list is below, would love comments and other sites. 1. www.ebay.com.au – everything 2. www.amazon.com – great gift wra...
After concentrating on Sydney shows, MEATBEE play their first Canberra electric show in more than a year!...
Canberra Review have a stunning puff piece shameful even by their own dire standards. In a “Review Profile” lacking a byline we are treated to an arts profile on one Richard Mulcahy MLA. One can only wonder if Mr. Mulcahy’s close friendship with the Canberra Review proprietor Micha...
In the spirit of general revolt sweeping across this benighted Territory, a RiotACT field operative reports that the bus drivers are taking the middle of the day off tomorrow. From 10am until 2pm tomorrow it’s private transport only folks. ...
OK, so there are things to do this weekend and people who want to do them. Why not put something in the comments of this story if you think you can add to the process? ...
The Canberra Times has a report on plans by Les Wassell to create a second taxi network in Canberra. The new network will need Government accreditation which will be a bit of a test of will in the corridors of power. If they have “call on approach” I imagine they will do very well. ...
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