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Socials: At Watts McCray Lawyers networking drinks
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ACT firefighters battle Cooma bushfire
MORE ACT firefighters will help fight an out-of-control bushfire burning north of Cooma. The 28 member team departed this morning to assist with the blaze, which began on Friday on Shannons Flat Road,...
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Canberra paying highest childcare costs
CANBERRA families continue to pay the highest costs for childcare compared to the rest of the nation, according to a report released today. The Federal Government’s June Quarter 2013 Child Care and...
View ArticleBurst water main forces road closure
A WATER main has burst on the corner of Canberra Avenue and Eyre Street. Territory and Municipal Services confirm traffic can still travel in both directions on Canberra Avenue, however traffic from...
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Roundabouts cause havoc for ACT drivers
ACT drivers are finding themselves in nose-to-tail collisions more often then any other type of crash, with almost three in 10 accidents involving one car smashing into the back of another, according...
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‘Suspicious’ blaze near Kambah Pool
Rural Fire Services are investigating a suspicious grass fire in Kambah yesterday evening which burnt about 10 hectares of land. About 9.50pm, police attended Kambah Pool Road following a request by...
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Heatwave forces cancelled bus services
CANBERRA’S recent hot weather has led to mechanical faults on several ACTION buses, forcing over 40 dropped services during peak hours. Director of Public Transport James Roncon says 29 services were...
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Cooma bushfire smoke warning
CANBERRANS have been warned of increasing bushfire smoke around the ACT due to a bushfire burning in Cooma. The fire has resulted in a large body of smoke entering the atmosphere and prevailing weather...
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And the word of the year is…
MACQUARIE Dictionary has announced “infovore” as the Word of the Year 2013 from a list of new words selected for inclusion in the annual update of the online dictionary. According to the dictionary,...
View ArticleDrawing a salary from graffiti
AS a boy growing up with dyslexia, art became an escape for Geoff Filmer. “I really struggled at school and gradually I developed the idea that art could be a way of channelling the paranoia that...
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Murder investigators search for missing shoe
POLICE are searching the Mugga Lane tip for a missing shoe as part of investigations into the murder of Phillip man Miodrag Gajic. Police search the tip.Following on the search warrant executed in...
View ArticleSweet solution to plumber’s setback
BAKING colourful macarons is a far cry from fixing leaky taps, but for Simon Hulm it’s been a “life-saving” career change after he was made redundant from his job as a plumber. The Macgregor resident...
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Soldiers bring trauma into the spotlight
WHEN Cpl David Cantley returned home after serving for the Australian Defence Force in Afghanistan, he found himself fighting his own battle. “It was becoming hard just to drive to work and walk out of...
View ArticleSaving stories the city’s trees can tell
THE great English poet William Blake once observed: “The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in their way”. Roughly 200 years later, the same...
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Canberra Confidential: Creepy dates with sugar daddies
HOW creepy is this? The ANU has the fourth highest number of Australian students (165) signing up last year to a nauseating US website designed to relieve “college debt” by dating cashed-up sugar...
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Barr backs beach volleyball
THE ACT Government has awarded $250,000 to Volleyball ACT to build six beach volleyball courts at Lyneham, as part of its $2.7 million Sport and Recreation Grants Program. An artist’s impression of the...
View ArticleHelicopters to inspect powerlines
HELICOPTER inspections of overhead powerlines will be undertaken throughout February, as part of ActewAGL’s network maintenance program. The patrol will fly at approximately 250 metres to identify...
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Artist’s peaceful, easy feeling
ARNOLD Williams is that rare kind of artist who seems totally comfortable within his own skin. Artist Arnold Williams He’s lucky. His father, Jimmy or “Boze” Williams is one of Queanbeyan’s most...
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DiCaprio discovers the need for greed
FIRST we had Gordon Gekko – now it’s time for the real thing. If the generational, iconic flick “Wall Street” was a fictional take on the culture of 1980s American capitalism, its 2014 cousin, “The...
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Socials: At Waitangi Day reception, NZ High Commission, Yarralumla
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