"History will be kind to us, because we will write it"
[ 5 October, 2013; ] Just announced! The Belconnen skatepark is the venue for the 2013 Australian Pro/Am Invitational Championships on Sat 5 October! ...
ACT Policing arrested four teenagers following an aggravated robbery in Mawson early this morning (Friday, May 24). Around 1am ACT Policing’s Woden Patrol attended the 7 Eleven Service Station following a report of an aggravated robbery at the sto...
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...
It’s been a while, but Mobile Office Reviews are back in full swing. Johnboy and rode our bikes down to Dickson to try out Deli Marco as a place of business. How was it? Technology: No public WiFi. However there were of power points along the ...
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....
Late yesterday the Greens put out a media alert letting people know about a special event to be held, er, last night. Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL) 2006 Wall of Shame Date/Time: Tuesday, 2nd of May, 7:00pm Location: Tilley’s Café, Wattle St, Lyneham. You and our friends are invite...
The ABC is reporting on Andrew Barr’s maiden speech to the Assembly in which he courageously tackled the real estate industry and investors, in the name of all those who have to date failed to get on the escalator. But he says housing affordability for young people needs to be addressed by rem...
Brendan has been quick off the mark to get stuck into our beloved comrade. I especially like this gem; “What Jon Stanhope is doing is punishing ACT public servants for his failings to manage the ACT Budget properly.” ABC article here. ...
Lovers of acronyms will wet themselves over this rather opaque report about job cuts in the ACT public service. The lead makes sense – UP to 1000 ACT public service jobs will go and technology will be used to centralise administrative services in one of the biggest shake-ups of the territory&#...
Jacqui Burke has put out a media release calling on Canberrans to pay to vote on the Channel 7 Show, Dancing With The Stars. Canberrans have been urged to vote at least once this evening for Human Nature vocalist Toby Allen when he dances as one of the final three couples in the television program D...
Everyone’s favourite tax sponge Deb Foskey has fired up the tofu-powered word processor to take issue with an opinion piece about the ACT’s woes by Angela Shanahan in The Australian. ...
The thirteenth RiotACT Rugby Review Podcast is available here. The beer for review this week is Cascade Sparkling Ale with a bonus review of the Lark Distillery Slainte. The feed for podcatching is http://the-riotact.com/wp-rss2.php?cat=43. Feedback and comments are much appreciated either below, or...
On Saturday 08-APR-06 we did the Civic Public Art Walking Tour and lived to tell the tale.
And so, I present to you item # 11, Ethos by Tom Bass. It’s in the Civic Squarre.
The guide had this to say:
Ethos stands in a dish bearing a relief map
of the city and holds aloft a bursting [...]...
John Hargreaves has put out a media release explaining the new laws, intended to prevent animal cruelty, being debated this week. I’m not a fan of animal cruelty, but I’m even less of a fan of changing laws just to give MLA’s a reason for being. So I’m a little concerned that...
Inspired By CitySearch’s ” 2006 AHA peoples choice award” for best canberra Restaurants – What are your favourite places in canberrra to dine? For me… its Iori Japanese Resturant in civic ...
Following on from last month, and in the wake of a late month clamour for statistics by the less patient amongst you, here’s the executive overview for the month of April.
Absolute unique visitors for the month was 12,662, down from 14,176. It was a slow news month with many public holidays,...
The ABC is reporting that Snowy-Hydro has agreed to sponsor the SouthCare helicopter for a further five years with an option out to 2016. Nice bit of spin at this difficult time PR-wise. But if it guarantees the region an air-ambulance I’m not going to engage in gift-horse dentistry. ...
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