Geoscience Australia Open Day this Sunday
CANBERRA’S keenly anticipated Geoscience Australia Open Day is on this Sunday. The day offers the opportunity to mix with Australia’s top geoscientists, learn how a dancing robot helps your GPS, or...
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Lyn Mills’ social event of the week
WITH the $2.5 billion broadcast deal still resonating, AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan addressed the National Press Club audience of AFL diehards, including our Chief Minister Andrew Barr plus...
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Australia v. India at Manuka Oval. Tickets on sale now
THE Australian cricket team will return to Canberra in 2016 for the Victoria Bitter One Day International (ODI) which will be played at Manuka Oval on Wednesday 20 January. “We saw Canberra’s biggest...
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Rone to enliven wall at Spanish Embassy
THIS YEAR the Embassy of Spain here in Canberra launched an Urban Art Prize for street artists to work on a wall of the Embassy. Work by Rone The winner of this prize is Melbourne artist Rone, who will...
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Paul / Scratching the little guys out
WE all love convenience. Pulling into your local service – er, sorry – petrol station these days allows you to not only fill your tank, but stock the cupboards, fill the bathroom, grab a few hardware...
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Pod playground closures
THE Arboretum is letting visitors know that the acorn pod structures at the popular Pod Playground will be closed from Monday 24 August until Friday 28 August 2015 to allow for works to be conducted...
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Review / ‘Dope’ (MA) *** and a half
FOR about 10 minutes after “Dope” began lighting up the screen, I wondered whether I could endure the rest of its 112 minutes. I could. And I happily did. Rick Famuyiwa’s film about teenagers coping...
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Review / ‘Irrational Man’ (M) *** and a half
HOW blessed audiences are to have Woody Allen still after 49 years providing films that, whatever their shortcomings, continue to remind us that cinema of merit doesn’t need to go extra-terrestrial or...
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Man injured in five-car lunchtime prang
A 30-year-old man is in hospital with serious chest injuries following a five-car crash at the Hindmarsh and Namatjira drive intersection. Two others, a 74-year-old woman and 76-year-old man, were also...
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Review / ‘Vacation’ (MA) ** and a half
IMAGINE this. Writers and directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein, together with seven producers (the guys who make the money decisions) sitting at a table deciding whether to...
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Barr moves to fix the Easter Sunday farce
ANDREW BARR has announced that the ACT Government will make Easter Sunday a classified public holiday in the ACT, alongside public holidays on Good Friday and Easter Monday. “In my address to the ACT...
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ACT to be 100% renewable by 2025
ANDREW Barr says Canberra will be the first capital and the largest city in Australia to be powered by 100 per cent renewable energy by 2025. “The commitment I’ll announce in my address to the ACT...
View ArticleGun found in Kambah
ACT Policing is investigating the discovery of a shotgun found in Kambah today, (Sunday 23 August). About 11.45am, police were notified of the shotgun by an elderly man who was walking his dog along...
View ArticlePlanting begins at the Lyneham food forest
OVER the weekend Shane Rattenbury planted what he says will be the first of many trees at the Lyneham food forest. “TAMS has worked closely with Lyneham residents who were interested in setting up a...
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Dob in illegal fishers
THE ACT Parks and Conservation Service is asking the public to report instances of illegal fishing in the ACT and is reminding those who fish to act responsibly to protect the local environment. “This...
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Grattan / GST to stay on tampons, be applied to all online goods
Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra THE GST exemption for imported goods and services purchased for less than $1000 will be scrapped from July 1, 2017 – or possibly earlier. Federal and state...
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Canberra artist wins in Young Archies
A YOUNG artist from Narrabundah is among the winners in the third annual Young Archie competition, one of the most popular events at the Art Gallery of NSW during Archibald Prize season. Harriet...
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Dining / The best and getting better…
IT’S no surprise that Pialligo Estate Farmhouse is getting rave reviews all round and picked up the “Best Restaurant” gong at the July 2015 AHA ACT Hospitality Awards. Wendy Johnson.This is a super...
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Review / Irish history in song, dance and mist
A mist, representing the mythical darkness that descended on Ireland with the arrival of the Tuatha Dé Danann, descended now on the audience for “The Haunted Celts”, billed as a history of Ireland...
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RSPCA seeks help in case of badly burnt kitten
RSPCA ACT Inspectors are asking the public for help in a case involving a severely burned kitten. At approximately 6:04pm on Thursday night someone left a severely burned kitten outside a door at the...
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