GP has kindly started the ball rolling with Skyfire pictures.
If you’ve got any you’d like added to the slideshow just email them in to images@the-riotact.com .

UPDATE: Mossrocket has sent in some pictures and a nifty video.

[ 25 January, 2013 to 26 January, 2013. ] Andrew Barr is letting us all know about the bread and circuses being doled our way for Australia Day:

In Canberra’s Centenary year, Australia Day 2013 has particular significance, providing a great opportunity for our community to celebrate how far our city has come over the past 100 years, and its significance to the shaping of [...]

Daniel has sent in these two gems from the New Year’s Eve fireworks over Civic.
Got an image of Canberra you want to change with the world? Email it in to images@the-riotact.com .

[ 31 December, 2012; ] Andrew Barr is letting us know what free entertainment will be doing the rounds for New Year’s Eve:

From 9.00pm at Garema Place, Bass in the Place will provide an explosive countdown to 2013 and Canberra’s centenary, set to the beat of Timmy Trumpet, who is currently ranked No.5 DJ in the National Australian Electronic Music [...]

I’ve asked google but failed to find any information.
Will there be fireworks over the long weekend?

[ 17 March, 2012; ]

Like it or not Skyfire is going to happen on 17 March.

FM104 has all the details you could possibly want about this landmark event on the Canberra calendar.

For those unfamiliar with AntiSocialFifteenYearOldFire here’s our slideshow from last year:

I’ve got to say last night’s fireworks was one of the bigger displays I can recall seeing (although I was reliably informed it’s not a patch on the Kentucky Derby).
We’ve had quite a few pictures sent in by readers (as always send your pictures in to images@the-riotact.com ), here’s the slideshow:

UPDATE: Michael has also sent [...]

By popular demand Andy has followed up from his flight of the Seagulls with some actual pictures of New Year’s Eve fireworks over Civic as we rang in 2012.
Here’s what he had to say:
These are from both fireworks sessions. First lot from the top of Red Hill, where I witnessed the most amazing lack of [...]

Am I the only person thats missed the glorious displays of suburban fireworks this weekend?
Now that the Grinchlike Hargreaves no longer has his wowserish fun killing hands on the levers of power, maybe we could ask the Gallagher government to bring them back? Even for only one weekend a year?

ACT Policing is seeking witnesses to the ‘glassing’ of a 42-year-old Wanniassa man at the Erindale Vikings Club on Saturday, May 28.
About 12.10am a number of fireworks were let off inside the VP3 lounge with one of the firecrackers landing near the feet of the victim’s partner. A fight inside the lounge broke out shortly [...]

This in from a normally reliable source, we await comment from ACT Policing.
– Incident occurred at the dancefloor\bar indoors at Erindale Vikings (P3?) on Friday night (27 May 2011).
– Group of drunk late teens\early 20s guys setting of fireworks inside.
– Were asked to leave by Security, but did not.
– Were not escorted out immediately, as [...]

Frustrated is one word I can use to describe how I & my family & friends felt at tonights Skyfire event and I’m certain we’re not alone judging by many complaints I heard from people sitting around us. Myself, husband, 2 kids and our newborn arrived at 6 just in time for the fighter jet [...]

What happens when it rains?

ACT Policing is appealing for witnesses to two explosions that occurred at ICBM and Meche in the early hours of Sunday morning (February 13).
The nightclub explosions were caused by similar commercial grade fireworks that launch into the air and explode in a bursting firework pattern. They have the potential to cause serious injury or death [...]

Kakosi has sent in these pictures she took of last night’s spectacular fireworks over the lake for Australia Day.
It was one hell of a show.
If you’ve got more good’uns send them in to images@the-riotact.com

Not really keen on hanging around the throngs of folks clamouring to see the fireworks.
Does anyone have any recommendations on alternate sites to view the fireworks tonight?

Forget posts offices, forget op shop opening hours, forget hiding from mum over Christmas. Forget Mullys and floods. We want to know the important stuff, the stuff that every Canberran, Queanbeyanite and Bungendoriack wants to know. When and where are the new years fire works?!!
Yes, I know I can Google that, but if I did [...]

The ABC’s got a po-faced story reminding us that not only can you not buy fireworks this year, but if you get caught with them you’re in big trouble:
Work Safety Commissioner Mark McCabe says the ban was implemented following a number of reviews.
“The ban was eventually considered necessary in the interests of public safety [...]

[ 4 June, 2010; 3:00 pm; ] From Saturday the 5th until Sunday the 20th of June, we are allowed bonfires on residential land for the purposes of celebration.

You can check the legislation, see  “Division 2.3, Schedule 1, Part 1.2, item 6″, or you can try the more user-friendly flier.

In the latter they claim legal requirements that must arise from other legislation [...]

While cleaning out my shed,Thursday .I come across some fireworks.I have them for years,but had forgotten about them.These day’s they are illegal,Not knowing what to do with them (letting them off was an option) I decided to phone Tuggeranong police for advice.
The officer said “put them in a plastic bag and bring them down”, to which I said [...]

For all the hype in the lead up last weekends biggest ever Skyfire event i’m very surprised at how quickly we’ve all returned to normality of day to day existence.
According to all media releases the crowds were huge, the police were out trying to keep the unruly and underage drinkers locked up, [...]

Two months ago a Facebook group appeared calling for the ACT ban on domestic fireworks to be lifted.
Now there’s a balancing one rallying those who want to retain the ban.
No need to go into the arguments for and against domestic fireworks – all been done before.
But if you favour the ban and [...]

[First filed: August 24, 2009 @ 11:49]

John Hargreaves has announced that, having last week murdered the Fringe Festival, he’s killing off Queen’s Birthday fireworks.
Some days it seems as if the man gets up in the morning devoted to making Canberra a worse place to live.
He is offering an amnesty for any of the now [...]

The Canberra Times reports that Jon Stanhope has come out as the first ACT politician to publicly state in principle support for a continued legal fireworks regime.
Mr Stanhope said he had traditionally been more for the regulated use of fireworks, rather than for an outright ban, but the Government would look at all the [...]

The ABC brings word that Questacon are reporting record visitor numbers over the weekend.
More than 8,000 people attended the science and technology centre, twice the number of an average weekend.
Questacon’s Graham Durant says the numbers were up 25 per cent on the same time last year.
“It was a very busy weekend for us and [...]

The Canberra Times reports that, despite the chardonnay sipping classes uniting against the proletarian pleasure of lighting off fireworks in a concerted media campaign, they only managed to lodge 175 complaints over the weekend.
I’m pretty sure that from my backyard I saw more houses joining in the fun side of it on Sunday night.
And while [...]

[First filed: June 05, 2009 @ 10:00}

Now I understand that the legal fireworks trading period is coming in a few days... [ED - This morning in fact]
I’ve been looking at the websites for the suppliers of the two major brands of fireworks (Black Widow and Brothers Pyrotechnics). To those who have bought stuff before, [...]

The Canberra Times has been digging for records on the numbers of firework miscreants getting punished for misusing black powder fun.
And it turns out there aren’t any.
“The Office of Regulatory Services says its records, which aren’t exhaustive, show no fines were issued last year or over the past few years.”
That’s one hell of a menace [...]

I have family arriving from regional NSW on the coming long weekend. We are combining specialist appointments on the Tuesday with a weekend of legal explosives, seafood and poker.  It won’t be the same without the fireworks.
I haven’t seen any advertising yet. Is there some special date that they can advertise or start selling [...]

As a relative newcomer to Canberra, my network here isn’t huge … which makes it all the more surprising that not one, not two, but three of my local friends (two in Fadden, one in Monash) had their letter boxes blown to smithereens last night. 
I wonder if these were the same thugs moving through different suburbs or was there [...]

The RSPCA is warning that fireworks season is upon us and offering advice for keeping your pet safe and sound.
“Ideally owners should stay home with pets, but if that’s not possible, they should place the animal in a quiet room surrounded by their favourite toys, and possibly items holding the owner’s scent, with a radio [...]

The fireworks were cool, but pretty loud (I wasn’t anywhere near the lake, either).
I’ve heard that the fireworks can traumatise domestic animals… but is anyone else hearing a large flock of birds flying around the south side squawking?
I’ve never heard a single bird at this time of night, let alone a whole flock.