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Have you seen Robert Sigismundi?
ACT Policing is appealing for the public’s assistance to help locate a missing 36-year-old man from Chisholm. Robert Sigismundi left home at 7am on Monday (5 January, 2015) in his 2005 white Mazda...
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Police celebrating ongoing reductions in crime statistics
ACT Policing’s latest quarterly crime statistics show a five per cent drop in crime reports across Canberra in 2014, with Belconnen leading the way. The December quarter 2014 statistics published on...
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Civic’s Christmas lights raise $300,000 for SIDS and Kids
THE world record Christmas lights display in Petrie Plaza has raised more than $300,000 for SIDS and Kids ACT. Close to 210,000 people passed through the gates during the month-long event held in...
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A backflip on $50 pokies
ANDREW Barr and Joy Burch have jointly announced a quick scurrying away from a quiet new years regulatory amendment to allow $50 notes to be used in ACT poker machines. “As a result of discussion...
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Assault in the Woden Bus Interchange
ACT Policing is appealing to a man who may have witnessed an assault at Westfield Woden on Sunday (January 11) to come forward. About 2:25pm a 17-year-old male was assaulted by another male at an...
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GIO brings down the cost of CTP insurance
WITH Costco petrol (for members) diving under a dollar per litre there’s more good news for Canberra’s motorists as GIO have announced the first ever reduction in Compulsory Third Party (CTP)...
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Jeremy Hanson calls once more for the head of Joy Burch
LOCAL Liberal leader Jeremy Hanson has made another of his semi-regular calls for Joy Burch to walk the ministerial plank. “After her ill-conceived and sneaky decision to allow $50 bank notes to be...
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Jeremy Hanson sides with pregnant women against postcode discrimination
LIBERAL Leader Jeremy Hanson says reports that ACT Health is considering banning expectant mothers from the north of Canberra from having their babies at the Canberra Hospital should be ruled out by...
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Property sentiment in Canberra on the slide
CONFIDENCE levels in the ACT property sector have dipped according to a leading indicator of business sentiment. The ANZ/Property Council Survey’s leading index for the March quarter of 2015 shows a...
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Meegan Fitzharris heads to the Assembly floor
ACT Electoral Commissioner Phillip Green says Andrew Barr’s Chief of Staff Meegan Fitzharris is set to replace Katy Gallagher in the ACT Legislative Assembly. Australian Labor Party (ACT Branch)...
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Vinnie needs your votes!
VINNIE the moggie is in the running to have his photo appear on a 2015 series RSPCA collector card. He is the only cat in Australia and the only Canberra entrant to have the opportunity by popular...
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Alleged Academy slugger to face court
A 22-year-old Giralang man will face court today following his arrest yesterday for an assault which occurred in August last year (2014) outside a Civic nightclub. About 12.40am on Sunday, August 17,...
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Artificial Intelligence should benefit society, not create threats
By Toby Walsh, NICTA SOME of the biggest players in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have joined together calling for any research to focus on the benefits we can reap from AI “while avoiding potential...
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Review / ‘Unbroken’ (M) *** and a half
ANGELINA Jolie came to Australia to direct this film about Louis Zamperini, who ran in the final of the 5000-metres at the 1936 Olympics and after joining the US Army Air Corps spent 47 days in 1943...
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Review / ‘Paper Planes’ (G) ***
DIRECTOR Robert Connolly and novelist Steve Worland have created a sweet, structurally linear, dramatically simple film about youthful determination, great children’s cinema that grown-ups might...
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Review / ‘Birdman’ (MA) **** and a half
AS I write, I hear the news that “Birdman” has garnered this year’s longest list of Oscar nominations. I’m not surprised. It’s a cracker of a film, packed with subtleties exploring, for example, the...
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Thredbo Blues Fest ‘unique’
THREDBO Blues Festival returns this weekend as part of Thredbo Village’s summer event schedule, the festival and, this year celebrating its 21st birthday, is boasting the “biggest and best line-up...
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New reference group for ACT Arts policy
ACT Minister for the Arts Joy Burch has today announced the membership of a reference group which will guide the consultation process for the review of the ACT Arts Policy Framework. Minister Burch“It...
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More synthetic cannabis seized
ACT Policing has seized a quantity of suspected synthetic cannabinomimetics during a search warrant executed on a retail outlet in Belconnen today (Friday, 16 January). About 1.30pm, Drugs and...
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Police still looking for Robert Sigismundi
ACT Policing is renewing its appeal for the public’s assistance to help locate 36-year-old Robert who has been missing since January 5. Robert Sigismundi left home at 7am on Monday (5 January, 2015)...
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