Car collides with Oxley house
Firefighters and intensive care paramedics are on Newman Morris Circuit, Oxley after a car has collided with a house. The house has sustained some minor structural damage with a broken window and...
View Article‘Classical Encounters’ for student musicians
THE “Classical Encounters” program, to be launched at Canberra Grammar School this Sunday, May 11, is the brainchild of Joshua Healey, a year 12 student at the school. Kalina Krusteva Beginning with a...
View ArticleCheap lunches. Global Cafe on Northbourne
NESTLED in the bosom of the Jolimont Centre the Global Cafe has been quietly doling out delicious Ethiopian curries for a few years now. Offering dine in or take away they offer a choice of three...
View ArticleDexaprine XR Green Apple recalled
ACT Health advises that King Sports Industries Pty Ltd has recalled a caffeinated beverage product known as Dexaprine XR because it contains prohibited levels of caffeine, prescription only substances...
View ArticleFashion, experiment, music: Arts in Canberra this weekend
“FASHION in the Street” is an exhibition by photographer and CIT photography teacher Brian Miller, now showing at CIT Design Space in Reid. Fashion in the Street THE show took Miller to Canberra,...
View ArticleSocials: At Elite Sound and Lighting 20th birthday party, Hume
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View ArticleThe Face is alive and well at PhotoAccess
PHOTOACCESS is abuzz today with plans for National Portrait Gallery Director Angus Trumble to open their newest exhibition in the Huw Davies Gallery Ulli Brunnschweiler: “Zoe” “One Great Face”, they...
View ArticleMore stop sign rollers than red light runners nabbed in April
ACT Policing caught 238 drivers disobeying traffic controls during the month of April, when it targeted the offences as part of its multi-agency road safety strategy. During April, ACT Policing issued...
View ArticleIn May the police are looking out for impaired drivers
ACT Policing is targeting alcohol and drug impaired driving this month as part of our multi-agency road safety strategy. With 1,357 drunk drivers and 116 drug impaired drivers removed from ACT roads...
View ArticleCheap lunches. Mon Thani on Petrie Plaza
MY recent column mentioning the Burmese Curry Wars attracted some rumblings in social media for neglecting to include Petrie Plaza’s Mon Thani. The slight had not been deliberate, previous visits had...
View ArticleReview: ‘Healing’ (M) ****
WRITER/director Craig Monahan’s cinematic oeuvre may be small but it is beautifully formed. “Healing” is his fourth film. As well as showing absolutely spectacular footage of Australian raptors, it...
View ArticleReview: ‘Chef’ (M) ***
REGULAR customers come to the Los Angeles restaurant where chef Carl (writer/director Jon Favreau) has offered the same menu for a decade. Carl resists restaurant owner Riva’s (Dustin Hoffman)...
View ArticleReview: ‘A Castle In Italy’ (MA) *** and a half
IMAGINE that, just for fun, a jigsaw factory compiles one comprising one or two pieces from a selection of its images. Together the pieces can be assembled into a complete plate but the fun comes when...
View ArticleThe Woden School helps out with building the Boundless Playground
STUDENTS from The Woden School have made the trip lakeside to take part in a working bee for the Boundless Playground. The Woden School offers a unique supported high school and/or college program to...
View ArticleTwo arrested on corruption charges
THE Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) have announced they’ve made two arrests, one of them a Canberra based public servant, in relation to...
View ArticleHot festivities for Glassworks’ seventh birthday
IT’S a whole seven years since the historic Kingston Powerhouse, designed by architect JS Murdoch, first opened its doors in 2007 as a working glassworks, with the idea of providing access to...
View ArticleProposed Senate voting reforms would curb micro parties
By Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra SWEEPING changes to the electoral law to crack down on micro parties ‘’gaming’‘ the system to win Senate seats appear certain after unanimous...
View ArticleThe Queen v. Moustafa Negro
THE sentencing by Chief Justice Murrell of one Moustafa Negro and his accomplice Nabel Quzag is an interesting read. The pair plead guilty to growing 98 cannabis plants in a four bedroom Macgregor...
View ArticlePress, Vikings, and Hellenic win Clubs of the year
CLUBSACT have had their night of nights and the winners are: CIT Best Apprentice – Daryl Harris, National Press Club of Australia Chefs Battle – Runner Up – Joshua McCulloch and Finnian Power of...
View ArticleYarralumla and Springbank Island burns today
The ACT Rural Fire Service will today conducted a hazard reduction burn to clear debris at Stirling Park in Yarralumla The small burn will target grass and piles of vegetation previously cleared by...
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