Ok – mostly rant – but part prayer for a free solution:
During the Christmas holidays I got a speeding fine in Sydney – 70kmh in a 60kmh zone – outside of the double demerits period. A quick search of the NSW RTA website indicates the fine will be waived if it’s a low range offence [...]

It wasn’t pretty, and it wasn’t great (Foxsports tells the tale).
But it was a pretty comprehensive thrashing of those bastards from Sydney with nine turncoats turning out in nursery blue.
A special “get cancer and die” to the NSW parents who let their kids stand in the front row and not sit their tubby arses down [...]

Liberal Leader Zed Seselja is making an unusual foray into NSW politics, calling for them over the border to pay for upgrades to the road mostly used by us Canberrans after a weekend of fatalities on the Kings Highway:
“There have been too many accidents and fatalities on the Kings Highway and
it is high time the [...]

We are looking at buying a house on the coast, just wondering if someone here could recommend a conveyancing group, and do you contact them 1st? or get the loan 1st?. I
just don’t know exactly what our next steps should be since I’ve never bought a home here in Australia.  
Please help =)

Chief Minister Gallagher has announced she’s reached an agreement with NSW to jointly bid for the gargantuan G20 summit in 2014 (whereby the leaders of the 20 most powerful countries in the world will all need motorcades and 5 star hotels simultaneously).
“Late last year I wrote to NSW Premier, Mr Barry O’Farrell, proposing that our [...]

Canberra and the ACT, they’re often treated as if the two are synonymous. Certainly on this site we’re guilty of using the words interchangeably.
Having been established under Section 125 of the Constitution to resolve the Melbourne / Sydney impasse we were unceremoniously dumped into a state of Self Government in 1988 when the Hawke Government [...]

Chief Minister Gallagher has announced she’s signed a Memorandum of Understanding with NSW.
She says it heralds “a new era of economic development and service delivery for the people of the ACT and south east NSW”.
What’s it going to do to bring about this “new era”? Hmmmm, there’s this bit:
It reflects the desire to pursue [...]

I live in Queanbeyan and  have just got a learners licence (NSW).
I need to pass the driving test before i can drive independently.
I have driven on my learners licence in an automatic car on highway with my friend.
I have to start a job but i cant apply unless i can drive independently.
I cannot afford to [...]

The Greens’ Shane Rattenbury is taking considerable pleasure in telling the Canberra Liberals “Told you so!” after the High Court of Australia threw out the NSW anti-bikie laws.
“In 2009 the Canberra Liberals argued strongly for the need for laws similar to those in NSW to be adopted in the ACT. They argued the Government needed [...]

Does anyone know how enforcable NSW parking fines are? 
My husband picked up a parking fine in Sydney in January 2011 in a car registered in my name. The fine came in the mail and he said to ignore it but now an enforcement notice has come and I’m worried that if it doesn’t get [...]

The Canberra Times has a piece on the fallout of yesterday’s NSW Budget (note how NSW cleverly wait until after they’ve seen the Federales).
The big thing for us is that in NSW houses under $600,000 will be exempt from stamp duty. This in turn will allow developments in the surrounding Canberra region to be priced [...]

I see on news.com.au that the national and local news tab have us with NSW and shows a daily telegraph icon. Why?
Do we not have our own news paper? Do we not have our own goverment? Our own isues? We are the Capital City of Australia right?
So should we fight for the change or just [...]

The NSW government has just passed laws restricting retail opening hours, preventing trading without an exemption on Christmas Day, Boxing Day, Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
The spin in the CT and SMH is positive, saying it will allow retail staff the opportunity to spend more time with their families. However it also means retail workers [...]

ABC News Story
Other randomly googled news site
It appears that in response to people shining lasers at aircraft, the state is banning laser pointers.  Does anyone know if there is a minimum strength of pointer, of if this is a blanket ban?  If it is a blanket ban, then be very careful driving to Queanbeyan if [...]

The Kings Highway east of Canberra has been closed in both directions between Braidwood and Bungendore after two people were killed in an accident.
Two vehicles were involved.
Police and ambulance crews are still at the scene.