Review / Dr Kunda, an up-and-coming star
BRADLEY Kunda is well-known to Canberra audiences. Born in Adelaide, the now multi-award-winning classical guitarist studied at the ANU School of Music under Timothy Kain, who remains Kunda’s mentor....
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Meningococcal at ADFA
ON Saturday evening an Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) Cadet Officer presented to the Duntroon Health Centre, and was then transferred by ambulance to Canberra Hospital with Meningococcal...
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Manuka Oval to get a cracking match against South Africa
CRICKET Australia has announced Canberra’s Manuka Oval is going to get a top flight day/night cricket game against South Africa on 19 November. “This is exciting news for Canberra cricket fans, and...
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Another campaign against illegal guns
ACT Policing has today (Monday, June 16) launched its support of the Australia New Zealand Police Advisory Agency’s (ANZPAA) two-week national campaign called Operation Unification ‘Illegal Guns off...
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Simon wants your bids for community solar
SIMON Corbell is asking community groups to put their hands up for a new solar scheme that could generate enough electricity per year to power 250 Canberra homes. “This will be a great opportunity for...
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Ticket inspectors to ride the bus lanes
FROM Monday June 23 ACTION Transport Officers will be doing regular ticket inspections to check passengers have paid the correct fare for their journey. “We are confident that most of our passengers...
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Road rager hacks up a Mitchell car with a machete
ACT Policing has arrested a 45-year-old NSW man following an incident of road rage in Mitchell this morning (Monday, June 16). About 7.20am, the driver of a black station wagon rammed the vehicle into...
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Queanbeyan Mayor comes out swinging on facebook for a cinema
QUEANBEYAN’S Mayor Tim Overall has taken to facebook to urge his council to approve plans for a long awaited Queanbeyan cinema. In a lengthy post to the “Cinemas for Queanbeyan : Joint Venture” page...
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Queanbeyan cabinetry apprentice Oliver Baker to represent us at the...
CAPITAL Veneering’s cabinetry apprentice Oliver Baker is off to Perth to compete in the WorldSkills National Competition having cleaned up the local competition. It’s been a wild ride for the...
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Firebugs in Higgins and Hawker
ACT Policing is seeking witnesses to two separate fires which occurred in the early hours of yesterday morning (Sunday, June 15). About 12.20am yesterday, police were called to the Hawker Gardens...
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Marist Old Boy Patty Mills wins an NBA championship with the Spurs
THE New York Times brings word of one time Canberra Cannons ball boy Patty Mills claiming one of the most sought after prizes in sport, an NBA championship with the San Antonio spurs. Mills studied at...
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Kitchen fire in Wanniassa
A Wanniassa family have been taken to transported to The Canberra Hospital following a kitchen fire. The father and mother and their two children, a one-year-old and two-year-old, were treated by ACT...
View ArticleCalling ACT Writers: Book of the Year Award
THE coveted 2014 ACT Book of the Year Award is open to applications, it has been announced today by Minister for the Arts Joy Burch. The $10,000 prize is open to ACT writers who have had a contemporary...
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The seemingly unstoppable yarn bomb scourge strikes on Petrie Plaza
DESPITE all the blood and treasure spent on the Wars on Terror somehow the senseless acts continue. In this case, in Canberra, an otherwise blameless tree in Petrie Plaza has had to suffer the...
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Arboretum gets Saddam Hussein-like levels of approval
KATY Gallagher has triumphantly announced dizzying levels of satisfaction for the National Arboretum with the facility of barely grown trees getting approval ratings usually seen only in third world...
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Cheap lunches. Kudos Taste in Canberra House
RIGHT in the guts of Canberra House looking like it belongs in a food court, is a strange little Japanese restaurant called Kudos Taste. It looks like a mom and pop operation and there is much...
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Shane promises a brave new world of community transport
SHANE Rattenury has announced new systems to help transport-disadvantaged Canberrans. “In conjunction with the introduction of the bus network in the middle of this year, we will also pilot an...
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Gardening / For the love of lingering lilies
ONE of florists’ favourite flowers is the lilium (or lily) because they can be delivered in bud and open slowly over one to two weeks. It’s lily planting time… no garden is complete without...
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Macklin / Katy takes a hand in the broken ARM
THREE cheers for Chief Minister Katy Gallagher in dubbing Australia’s royalists celebrity groupies; and in her rallying cry for real action from the Australian Republican Movement. Robert Macklin.The...
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ANU researchers claim galactic breakthrough
THE ANU’s Associate Professor Helmut Jerjen is explaining work by an international team of researchers showing that the dwarf galaxies around our own, for example the Magellanic Clouds, are the result...
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