"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...
ABC TV . 7.30 Friday. * See the new plans for Canberra in all their 3D technicolour glory – did the Griffin Legacy call for Parisian boulevardes? Where do these plans leave the original problem of a down-at-heel and shabby Civic centre, if all the emphasis moves to City Hill and down to the L...
It’s a funny thing when you think to look up a person’s wiki entry. Take our beloved Jon Stanhope for example. We wonder why anyone needs to spread such scurrilous rumours about the Chief Minister when he gives so much of substance with which to work. Putting the “StanhopelessR...
The ABC reports that the AFP’s Special Response and Security team is being given taser stun guns. Civil Liberties Australia is, again, doing a disservice to the name of Civil Liberties by objecting to the move. I could see some (not much) merit to their position if they were talking about norm...
I know that re-publishing Robert Fisk is a sacred and serious calling. Examining weighty matters of State is also fun, and more importantly you can hang out with the cool kids from the big papers and regurgitate their ideas when you don’t have any of your own. But as the only people who read t...
We have told you before about “The Greenhouse” which is now the biggest and the best Canberra Raiders supporters forum on the web. We have now moved to a new host and have a new address…. www.thegreenhouseact.com.au We are having a few teething problems, but hopefully they will all...
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has put out a warning about bogus census collectors in Canberra. It appears some people have been wandering around collecting people’s census forms who aren’t official collectors. Why anyone would want to do this is beyond me (but then I wasn’t h...
Canberra’s premier rock event is back, this time it’s science fiction.
Featuring
Fugitive replicant Konrad Lenz and his astounding band of off-world mutants The Spirits of the Dead launching their 5 track EP Razor Jayne.
Evil scientist Dr Thomas Edison Woodward and his genetically engin...
Friday 18 August is Vietnam Veterans Day and also the 40th Anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan. This was the most significant Australian battle of the Vietnam War, where a rifle company of 108 withstood, for four hours, repeated mass attacks from a Viet Cong force estimated at 2,500. The first Com...
The Australian has noted that the Canberra Times is now the worst performing metropolitan paper in the country: “The worst-performing newspaper was The Canberra Times, published by Rural Press, which lost 7000 readers Monday-to-Friday (equivalent to 5.4 per cent of its readership), 12,000 on S...
As the teachers set about ruining a year’s education with their strikes the ABC also has news that they’re being joined by the city’s garbage collectors (contracted by a private company, not the Government). Residential garbage collection is not expected to be affected at this poin...
Having a quick gecko through the SMH I came across this. “I’m just happy that the Eels are in the top 8. I’ve been a supporter since 1980 and even since I moved to Canberra as a child. I remember walking through Carlingford with the Eels flag flying when Parramatta played the Bulld...
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