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Grattan / Abbott’s paid parental leave looks like dead plan walking
By Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra The travails of Tony Abbott’s paid parental leave scheme are symptomatic of the government’s wider problems. The Prime Minister says he won’t abandon the...
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Third time lucky: Saturn’s disappearing act
By Tanya Hill, Museum Victoria On the night of Monday August 4, mainland Australia will see Saturn disappear behind the moon. It’s the third time this year that the moon and Saturn will perfectly line...
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Simon says Canberrans are supportive of light rail
SIMON Corbell has announced that with sufficiently leading questions his pollsters have managed to wrangle some supportive numbers from the community for his light rail plans. “The results are...
View ArticleBehold Canberra’s brawling convicts
THE Liberals’ Andrew Wall wants answers as to how video of prisoners fighting in Canberra’s prison made its way to YouTube. “Shane Rattenbury needs to fully investigate the authenticity of a video...
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Monday’s dose of bad parking to get your week started
DANNY has sent in a marvellous example either of not quite hitting the mark, or of failing to apply the hand brake. “Saw this in Woden today and thought I’d forward on.” Meanwhile Rupert of Upper...
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Thousands sign Yarralumla planning petition
Residents brave the morning cold to present their petition. Photo by Gary SchaferYARRALUMLA residents gathered at the historic, but neglected Brickworks in freezing temperatures this morning to present...
View ArticleCorrective Services attempting to censor YouTube and the wider internet
FOLLOWING on from this morning’s story about YouTube video of inmates at Canberra’s Alexander Maconochie Centre fighting we now have an admission that the video is real and relatively current, and...
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Canberra leading Australia in Twitter adoption
By Axel Bruns, Queensland University of Technology FOR a social media platform which has assumed such a prominent space in public debate and popular media, we still know remarkably little about the...
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Bigots from around Australia rallying to fundraise for Concerned Citizens of...
THE small minded and deeply ignorant “Stop the Mosque” crowd in Bendigo have turned their sights to Canberra where our own “Concerned Citizens of Canberra” have been hoist by their own petards trying...
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Gentleman amends the holidays
MICK Gentleman says amendments to the Holidays Act 1958 have passed the Legislative Assembly, recognising the Territory’s ever increasing ‘Seven day’ workforce and intended to ensure that workers...
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Tickets go on sale for Australia v. South Africa at Manuka
ANDREW Barr has let Canberrans know tickets to November 19′s Carlton Mid One Day International at Manuka Oval are now on sale. “It is great to see the Australian cricket team returning to Canberra...
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As seen on Bunda Street, an electric bamboo bicycle
BICYCLE Chic is very in right now, and your correspondent has some very chic ones himself. But we dip our lids to this effort seen on Bunda Street in Civic this afternoon. A bamboo framed bicycle with...
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Trio on show at lunchtime concert
TRIO Telopea is made up of Alys Rayner on violin, Emily Buckley on piano and Emma Rayner on cello. Alys Rayner, violin, Emily Buckley, piano, and Emma Rayner, cello. They’ll be at Wesley Music Centre...
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Police still disappointed with Canberrans on the roads
ACT Policing caught 873 drivers speeding during July, just half-way through its joint ACT Government campaign asking Canberrans to ‘Stop pushing the limits’. Of the 873 drivers caught speeding, 582...
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Saucy Amanda celebrates the ones that got away
AMANDA Muggleton thrives on her reputation as one of our sauciest performers. Amanda Muggleton Born in Stepney, London she emigrated to Australia in 1974. Her most famous television role is perhaps...
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Anglicans to lament those they have hurt this Sunday
THE Anglican Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn, Stuart Robinson, has announced this Sunday will be a day of lamentation and a will feature a public apology “to those hurt by the Anglican Church”. On...
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Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) festival opens at...
NOBEL Laureate Brian Schmidt has opened Turner Primary’s Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) festival. Held in partnership with the ANU, Questacon, Dickson College among others,...
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It’s back – the largest 10-minute theatre festival in the world
RETURNING to Canberra for its sixth year, Short+Sweet Canberra, accurately billed as “the largest ten minute theatre festival in the world” presents over 30 ten-minute plays, directed and performed by...
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Labor and Liberal combine to increase the size of the Assembly
SIMON Corbell is celebrating the success in the major parties on agreeing to a new electoral system for the ACT with five electorates returning five members replacing the strange 5-5-7 system....
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Award-winning doco coming to Manuka
“THE Man from Cox River” is a cinematic phenomenon, an award-winning doco that has actually secured its way into mainstream cinemas, and it’s directed by a Canberran. Luke Carlon spots a brumby The...
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