RACE winners at Thoroughbred Park will receive a bonus $5000 as of September 1 thanks to a new scheme introduced by Canberra Racing Club. CanBOBS (Canberra breeders and owners bonus scheme) will be available for…
Sports columnist TIM GAVEL reflects on two special people involved in local swimming IT was a desire to become involved in their kids’ swimming that led Joan Kellet and John Skene on a journey that,…
Sports broadcaster TIM GAVEL says there’s a place to acknowledge the Tour de France champion in Canberra AT first glance, my campaign to have Stromlo Forest Park renamed the Cadel Evans Park was a failure…
THERE’S a big chance Adelaide Crows defender Phil Davis will join the Greater Western Sydney Giants in 2012. GWS today confirmed they have been in discussions with Davis’ management throughout the year. “We discussed an…
GLEN Buttriss has been re-signed to the Canberra Raiders for a further two seasons. Butriss, 25, whose contact was to end at the end of this year will play with the Raiders until the end…
LATE yesterday, staff at the ANU School of Music received a letter from head of school Prof Adrian Walter via an email from the general manager’s office, saying that he was no longer on leave….
ANU Music staff have greeted stories of a “backdown” over staff cuts by the vice chancellor, Ian Young, with disappointment and scepticism. A senior faculty member who preferred not to be named said staff were…
CANBERRA’S music community will be saddened to hear of the death in Denmark of pianist and former director of the Canberra School of Music, John Winther. Winther was born on August 20, 1933 in Copenhagen,…
IT WAS undoubtedly the noisiest, and the coolest, rally in town as staff, students and members of the public gathered at the ANU’s Union Court today to protest against cuts and changes at the School…
