Black Mountain Wildflower Ramble this Saturday
WILDFLOWER lovers are asking the public to join them for the Burbidge/Chippendale tradition of celebrating the spring flowering with the 44th annual Black Mountain wildflower ramble. The ramble offers...
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Lyn Mills’ social event of the week
TIM Sullivan is a man who loves history and particularly the stories of our involvement in wars. Not just those of the soldiers, sailors and airmen but of the extended families, the connections, the...
View ArticleCyclists injured on Monaro Highway crash
TWO cyclists have been taken to Canberra Hospital following a crash involving a car on the Monaro Highway near Royalla this morning. The crash occurred just before 8am. One cyclist has sustained leg...
View ArticleDigital edition 1 October
JON STANHOPE offers a thoughtful column this week on why people are turning away from politicians; JOHN GRIFFITHS argues we’d all be much safer in driverless cars and SONYA FLADUN discovers “adult...
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Ridesharing decision brings union warning
AS the ACT government gives the green light to ridesharing, Unions ACT has warned that the arrival of app-based booking services such as Uber does not excuse companies from their responsibility to...
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‘Silvery Moon’ fun as arts centre celebrates
IT’S all go at one of our busiest southside community arts hubs as Tuggeranong Arts Centre gears up for its silver anniversary event– the Silvery Moon Festival, and it’s time to sign up for workshops....
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Colourful end to lizard mystery
Frill neck lizard. Photo by Miklos SchibernaANU Researchers have found frill-necked lizards have different coloured frills, depending on where they live and what they eat. The research solves a mystery...
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Stanhope / Why don’t people like politicians?
THE sacking of Prime Minister Tony Abbott by his Liberal Party colleagues has not generated the sense of shock, anger or even surprise that followed the despatching of Prime Ministers Rudd and...
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Unemployment rate tumbles in Queanbeyan
Queanbeyan Mayor Tim Overall.Queanbeyan’s labour force has bucked the national trend with the local unemployment rate falling almost half a per cent to 1.8 per cent in the June quarter. Figures...
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Arts / Taking Nuevo Tango to the world
Argentine-Australian pianist Marcela Fiorillo… opening Nuevo Tango to a different generation. Photo by William HallTHE haunting tangos of Astor Piazzolla have long ago taken the classical music world...
View ArticleInsurer excited about ridesharing
NRMA Insurance has welcomed the ACT Government’s decision to regulate ridesharing, enabling shared economy providers to operate legally in Canberra, the first Australian jurisdiction to do so. “We...
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Clarke tops the radio rating pops
Ratings king, Phillip Clarke.ABC666 has emerged from the latest radio ratings as Canberra’s most listened-to station, knocking FM104.7 off the top spot with a rating lift of 1.8 per cent, giving it a...
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Moore / Slim chance of putting voters first
THE community and the voters can be put before the self-interest of political parties in the new era of Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten. It sounds like flying, purple pigs! But there just might be a...
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Canberra Confidential / Merry Christmas, everyone!
Counting the sleeps… Guy and Jules Sebastian with you-know-who.BAH, humbug! It’s getting to look a bit too much like Christmas too soon. As CC chases this column’s deadline (in September), we wonder if...
View ArticleThree taken to hospital after Florey crash
TWO women and a child have been taken to The Canberra Hospital after a two-car crash in Florey. The cars collided at the corner of Southern Cross Drive and Ratcliffe Crescent around 2.30pm. A...
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Police respond to ransom threats at city hotels
POLICE are responding to two reports of ransom demands directed to the Novotel and Pavilion hotels today. At 12.50pm, police received a report from Novotel management that they had received a...
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Famous faces gather at last in Parliament House
AUSTRALIA’S prime ministers are meeting in Parliament House for the first time — in a manner of speaking. Archibald Douglas Colquhoun (1894–1983) The Rt Hon. Joseph Benedict Chifley, 1953, Historic...
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Arts / What’s on this weekend
CANBERRA music-lovers will be astonished by the Australian premiere of Salvatore Sciarrino’s “The Circle Cut by Sounds” for 104 flutes this Friday. “Il cerchio tagliato dei suoni” in Livorno 2013“IL...
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Wasp hotline changes
The European wasp.FOR all enquiries about European wasps, the ACT government is asking members of the public to contact CoreEnviro Solutions on 6258 5551, rather than the previous wasp hotline....
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KIngston Foreshore to Light the Night
ORGANISERS are expecting more than 500 people to take part in the Leukaemia Foundation’s Light the Night event at Kingston Foreshore on Friday, October 9. The local short walk, from 5.30pm, will be one...
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