THE Memorial Development Committee has listened to the public and altered its proposals for the World War I and World War II memorials on Lake Burley Griffin. The MDC was asked to change the location […]
MOUNT Ainslie Nature Reserve reopens tomorrow. The reserve, between Mount Ainslie Drive and Campbell Park Offices off Northcott Drive, has been closed since November 17 while the Department of Defence searched for unexploded ordnance – military […]
YOU hardly have time to blink and there’s a new exhibition up at the Belconnen Arts Centre. An easy way to catch up with what’s happening this month is to turn up on Sunday at […]
THE National Gallery of Australia has purchased a new international acquisition, “Oceania, the sea” (1946) by Henri Matisse. The large scale work was purchased with funds generously provided by NGA council member Timothy Fairfax. The […]
YOUNG racing enthusiasts will have the chance to compete in the Junior Fashions on the Field competition on Preview Day at Thoroughbred Park this Sunday. This is the fourth year that the Junior Fashions on […]
RANDOM 9 is a group of (not nine) 13 independent Australian emerging visual artists in Canberra. The group, now made up of Jessie Adams, Sarah Bainbridge, Aimee Fitzgerald, Maria Klingner, Kristen Leydon, Dianne Libke, Frank […]
WRITER/director Julie Gavros’s film about ageing is clever, witty, perceptive, mildly un-nerving and, therefore, very worthwhile. Architect Adam takes on bread-and-butter projects such as transport hubs that other firms don’t find sexy enough. Retired teacher […]
DIRECTOR Stephen Daldry’s film “The Reader” earned Kate Winslet an Oscar. He’s nominated again this year with this one. It’s not an easy read. But it’s undeniably challenging. Oskar (Thomas Horn), nine years old, emotionally […]
IN Icelandic film-maker Baltazar Kormakor’s energetic crime thriller, Mark Wahlberg plays Chris, once a smuggler at the pinnacle of his profession, now going straight with a family (Kate Beckinsale plays his wife, Kate) and a […]
A 26-year-old man will face the ACT Magistrates Court today after being caught driving a stolen car. The man was seen driving the stolen blue Honda HRV station wagon into a car park on Antis […]
A 32-year-old woman from Franklin will face the ACT Magistrates Court today charged with drug trafficking. Police searched a Franklin home yesterday and found money, about 30 grams of cannabis, 11 pipes used to smoke ice, 10 […]
CELEBRATED actress, Miriam Margolyes, will read from Dickens’ books at Civic Library tomorrow at noon. Margolyes is in Canberra performing “Dickens’ Women”, her eccentric one woman performance of 23 of Charles Dickens’ most memorable female […]
CHIEF Minister Katy Gallagher says John Hargreaves’ public humiliation and resignation from the role of government whip was enough punishment for the gay slurs he wrote on a note 18 months ago. Mr Hargreaves will take […]
ZAMBRERO’S has made it into Australia’s top five Fast Franchises in BRW magazine. The Fast Franchises list is ranked according to the average annual turnover growth over three years. Mexican fast-food outlet Zambrero’s made the third […]
ADDITIONAL bus services will be available for people visiting this weekend’s Royal Canberra Show. There’s also a free bus service for people attending the Brumbies first home game at Canberra Stadium on Friday. Motorists are warned there […]
POLICE are seeking anyone who saw a group of people that gathered near the Commonwealth Avenue bridge shortly before the attack on the Syrian embassy earlier this month. Police believe the group of people, mostly […]
THE Gallipoli Memorial Club is calling on Australian, New Zealand and Turkish artists to submit paintings to the $20, 000 Gallipoli Art Prize. Entries for the prize close on March 20, with the winner announced […]
TWO birthdays, Claude Debussy’s 150th and Canberra’s 99th, will be celebrated in a concert capturing the colour and sound of favourite Debussy piano works like “Claire de Lune” and “Preludes Estampes”. At the same time […]
VETERAN Canberra landscape artist and watercolourist, Dirk Bouma, has used his art to join a group of concerned citizens in the fight to reserve and develop the Ginninderra Falls and gorge area into a national […]
THE Autumn Silents season at the NFSA’s Arc Cinema, is focused on early polar cinema heritage in celebration of the centenary of Sir Douglas Mawson’s Australasian Antarctic Expedition and the “Heroic” Age of Antarctic exploration. […]
WILLIAM Slim Drive, in Giralang, has been closed in both directions following a two-vehicle crash. The accident occurred at about 4.10pm today (October 17) on the bridge between Chuculba Crescent and Owen Dixon Drive. Firefighters […]
MINISTER for Road Safety Shane Rattenbury has dropped his proposals, which would have restricted P-platers from driving between 12am and 5am. In July Canberra Labor MLA Chris Steel called on Mr Rattenbury to rule out curfews […]
POLICE are seeking video footage or witnesses after a car and a motorcycle collided in Griffith on Saturday (October 13). The car, a silver Mazda 2, and the motorcycle, a red “postie style” Honda CT110, crashed […]
A FIRE has torn through a home in Ngunnawal damaging the single storey house on Honyong Crescent. Firefighters found the house well alight after being called to it at about 1pm today (October 17). They quickly […]
THE Australian Federal Police Assistant Commissioner Ray Johnson has been named the new ACT chief police officer. Starting his career in Canberra, where he undertook both community policing and detective duties, Mr Johnson has 33 years […]
