IN an orchestrated bid in an election year, to put pressure on the ACT Government about Canberra’s liveability and housing affordability, the ACT Property Council has drawn other local business and industry groups, community groups…
IN the light of the Minister for the Environment and Sustainable Development, Simon Corbell’s release of the ACT draft planning strategy, people have been rightly considering the practical suggestions on how to achieve a denser…
Fences around schools are an ugly blight on the urban landscape, says MICHAEL MOORE PETER Harrison must be rolling in his grave. The proliferation of school fences simply torpedoes his vision for Canberra. From the…
THEIR purpose is to calm traffic, but the series of new “speed cushions” on 60kph Flinders Way near Manuka seem to do anything but calm drivers. “CityNews” has received calls of outrage from south-side residents…
With Canberra so besotted by “user pays”, FREYLA FERGUSON reveals a world of free advertising that basks in a rare burst of bureaucratic benevolence IN a city so controlling of public billboards, it is startling…
Music student ROHAN MOORE, of Save Our SOM, says there have been no wins for the School of Music
ACT Liberal arts spokesperson VICKI DUNNE reminds the ANU what the School of Music means to Canberra
CANBERRA’S musical heavyweights are throwing a free concert for the ACT community tonight to show the ANU what they can do. Organiser of the concert, pianist and masters student at the university, Andrew Rumsey, told…
THE ACT Division of the National Tertiary Education Union has condemned today’s announcement by the ANU of a possible fund-raising consortium as a case of exploiting community goodwill. NTEU said it was “a useful distraction…
IN a letter to the editor written to “CityNews”, Canberra Symphony Orchestra CEO Henry Laska has called on Canberra’s cultural circles to “take a step back” and work towards a considered solution to the current…
