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Thieves strike cars in Bruce
WALLETS, cash, credit cards, an iPad and sunglasses were stolen from parked cars, broken into around unit complexes in Thynne Street and Lampard Circuit, Bruce, at the weekend. Police are seeking...
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Cartoon / Dose of Dorin
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Macklin / A week we could have done without
WELL, those were seven days we could have done without. Preparations for the execution of the two apparently rehabilitated Bali Nine drug couriers, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran dominated the...
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Great ‘Ydeas’ that change lives
Country to Canberra organiser Hannah Wandel, right, and her essay winners with Foreign Minister Julie Bishop. From left, Hannah Worsley , Libby O’Brien, Ms Bishop and Vesna Clark.HANNAH Wandel had a...
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Six Hercules flypast tomorrow afternoon to honour Afghanistan veterans
SIX C-130J Hercules transport aircraft from Air Force’s No. 37 Squadron (37SQN) will fly over Canberra at 3pm tomorrow afternoon ahead of the Operation Slipper Welcome Home Parades across Australia on...
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Gardening / Going to jelly for crabapples
Malus “Gorgeous”… for great crabapple jelly.ONE of my favourite fruit trees is the crabapple Malus “Gorgeous” for one reason alone – its fruit makes the very best crabapple jelly, and I just love...
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Letters / Audacious self interest
“THE Property Council wants more foreign investment in Canberra,” (citynews.com.au, March 2). What an audacious statement by the self-interested Property Council. Quirking on about benefits to us but...
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Mick moves to protect Canberra’s “retail hierarchy”
MICK Gentleman says retailers will have greater certainty about future development in neighbouring local centres following the introduction of floor area limits. “I have approved these changes to the...
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Carter / Winning the talent war
BY 2055, Australia’s workforce participation rate will be 2.2 per cent lower than the 62.4 per cent it is today and any business looking to attract and retain talented people had better hold on to its...
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Arts / Funny business booms
Funny man… Ronny Chieng.SO popular is this year’s Comedy Festival that organisers had to put on a simultaneous (same acts, different order) gala in The Playhouse. Which makes artistic director...
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Police want to speak to this man in relation to Watson car fires
ACT Policing is investigating two vehicle fires in Watson from Thursday 5 March. About 12.15am, police were called to Higinbotham Street after receiving reports of two vehicles on fire at the...
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Arts in the City / Putting a face to humanity
Christopher Oates’ “The Yellow Elephant, Kambah”, 2014, gouache on paper.. in “Urban Suburban” at CMAG.Wendy Sharpe’s pastel on paper, “A Strong Woman”.WENDY Sharpe is back in town with her portrait...
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Arts / Dancing Alison is here now
CANBERRA dance artist Alison Plevey, her band of collaborators and Lingua Franca Dance Theatre have set themselves the daunting task of “making art work”. That’s one of the tags for You Are Here, the...
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Grattan / Hockey shouted down in 'conversation' about access to super for houses
By Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra JOE Hockey is the sort of guy who often leaps before looking too hard. This thought is particularly brought to mind by two completely different current...
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Dining / Vibrant Akiba sets the pace
AKIBA bills itself as “a restaurant for the people”; a restaurant that brings “New Asian cuisine” to Canberra. It’s designed around fast, inexpensive (relatively so) food served in a vibrant,...
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New parking spaces for Cooleman Court
SIMON Corbell says work to relieve parking pressures at the Weston Creek group centre will add 76 new parking spaces. “These works deliver on an election commitment made by Labor at the last election...
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Mick eases the red tape on building apartment blocks
MICK Gentleman says the ACT Government has passed changes making the unit titling process easier for applicants through red tape reduction regulation. “The Government has responded to industry...
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Moore / Plain Ricky puts up a good argument
STRANGE that it takes a Victorian senator from the bush, representing the Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party, to engage appropriately about the state of our democracy. In contrast to the moans and...
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Griffiths / Don’t open that attachment!
IT hasn’t had an enormous amount of media attention here in Australia, but last month details emerged of the world’s biggest bank heist. John Griffiths.It seems that during 2013 banks through Russia...
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Arts / The shell-shocked view of black history
Director Wesley Enoch and actor Guy Simon at the Australian War Memorial… Enoch decided to get in early and make it known loud and clear that there were First Peoples in the first world war. Photo by...
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