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Socials / At ‘Follow-up Friday’ drinks, National Portrait Gallery
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Socials / At L’Arche Genesaret Jubilee Dinner, Hellenic Club, Woden
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View ArticleReview / Ambition triumphs in unusual concert
It was an ambitious undertaking; two settings of “Magnificat” written 250 years apart (J S Bach and Arvo Pӓrt) and Pӓrt’s “Magnificat-Antiphonen”. And they were not performed in sequence, but...
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Are there abandoned shopping trolleys within sight of the Legislative...
HERE in Canberra we are blessed with a Legislative Assembly that periodically makes a great deal of noise about dealing with abandoned shopping trolleys. So it is with some glee that I make a weekly...
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Renters with exceptional document retention can now find out if they were Mr...
THE Environment and Planning Directorate (EPD) and the Asbestos Response Taskforce have announced a process to allow former tenants and homeowners to find out if a property they once resided in...
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Another assault outside the Academy nightclub
ACT Policing is seeking witnesses to an assault outside a Civic nightclub in the early hours of yesterday morning (Sunday August 17). About 12.40am, security staff refused a man entry to the Academy...
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Shane and Katy pleased with their Parliamentary Agreement
CHIEF Minister Katy Gallagher and the Green Shane Rattenbury have met and issued a joint communique expressing their satisfaction with their parliamentary agreement. “The review of progress has shown...
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Fire extinguished at Belconnen High
FIREFIGHTERS have extinguished a fire from an electrical switchboard at the Belconnen High School, Murranji Street, Hawker. ACT Fire & Rescue has evacuated approximately 450 staff and students as...
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ACTION’s new bus timetable revealed
SHANE Rattenbury has unveiled the details of ACTION’s new “Network 14” ahead of its Monday September 1 commencement. “Network 14 will be a significant improvement on the existing bus network. It has...
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Gundaroo Public School turning 150
GUNDAROO Public School is getting ready to celebrate its 150th birthday next year. A program of events for the day has been developed, which includes a luncheon, student musical performance, school...
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Bulk billing doctors making house calls
CHIEF Minister Gallagher has launched the National Home Doctor Service in Canberra. The National Home Doctor Service brings together three leading organisations – Family Care Medical Services (FCMS),...
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The Geoscience Open Day is upon us
ONE of Canberra’s most popular events, Geoscience Australia’s annual Open Day, is on this Saturday/ The day provides the opportunity to mingle with the country’s top geoscientists, sieve for...
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Have you seen David Pang?
ACT Policing is seeking the public’s assistance to help locate a missing 48-year-old man. The man, David Pang, was reported missing earlier today by his wife. David was last seen about 10pm last night...
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Eastman decision: Guilty verdict quashed. Eastman to be released on bail!
DAVID Eastman has served 19 years for the killing of Police Commissioner Colin Winchester. In May a board of inquiry found his conviction was a miscarriage of justice. Today the ACT Supreme Court has...
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Recognise these blokes from another Academy nightclub attack?
ACT Policing is seeking to a person of interest in relation to an altercation at the Academy nightclub on 10 August. About 2.25am, a brief altercation occurred between two males on the dance floor of...
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Controlled burn on Red Hill
THE ACT Rural Fire Service will tomorrow, Saturday 23 August, 2014, weather permitting, conduct a hazard reduction burn at the Federal Golf Club, Gowrie Drive, Red Hill. The burn will commence from...
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New life for Benedict House
HISTORIC Benedict House in Queanbeyan has today announced the launch of the much-awaited Benedict Arts Precinct, a new centre for arts, design and music in the capital region. Rory and Jessica Markham...
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Selfhood and identity in digital artworks
THE $10,000 Macquarie Digital Portraiture Award has gone to Tiyan Melissa Kilie Baker from the Northern Territory, it was announced this morning at the National Portrait Gallery by Lisa George of the...
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Carol Mills speaks out on her Westminster row
CAROL Mills, the Secretary of the Department of Parliamentary Services, has issued an extraordinary statement in the wake of recent fevered media reporting in the United Kingdom over her proposed...
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Support the firies this Wattle Day
CANBERRANS are asked to help ACT Rural Fire Service Brigades keep our community safe by buying a Wattle Day badge during the next two weeks in support of National Wattle Day on 1 September 2014. The...
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