And the Your Canberra Clubs People’s Choice Awards winners are…

GUNGAHLIN Lakes Golf and Community Club, Southern Cross Club Jamison and the National Press Club of Australia have topped the list at the ACT Club Industry’s night of nights, winning the highest accolade of the […]

Barnesy can still pull a crowd in Canberra

AUSTRALIAN music legend Jimmy Barnes is in the Canberra Centre this afternoon pushing his new book. “Working Class Boy” is, according to the blurb, “a powerful reflection on a traumatic and violent childhood, which fuelled […]

John Schumann, Rob Kelvin and Rohan Powell

Socials / At the opening of ‘For Country, One Nation’ exhibition, Australian War Memorial

Lucy Palmer wins the ADFAS award

CANBERRA-based glass artist Lucy Palmer was awarded the 2016 Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society’s (ADFAS) grant of $1,000 on Thursday night. The funds will assist in developing her artistic practice. This is the fifth […]

Review / ‘Storks’ (PG) half a star

“MOMMY, where did I come from?” There are two answers. One is the truth, whether embellished or not by references to birds and bees. The other is a lie. The stork didn’t bring a baby. […]

Review / ‘Snowden’ (M) *** and a half

A SCREENPLAY by director Oliver Stone co-written with Kieran Fitzgerald wears this film’s heart on its sleeve and unashamedly asserts that its villain is not Edward Snowden, the IT whizz-kid now exiled in Russia after […]

Failed attempt to knock over the Calwell Caltex

ACT Policing arrested a 20-year-old woman following an attempted aggravated robbery at Caltex Service Station in Calwell this morning (Friday, 23 September). About 12.45am, the woman entered the service station and demanded cash from the […]

Grattan on Friday / Morrison reminds everyone Porter is walking in his steps

TREASURER Scott Morrison posted a this-was-mine claim on Facebook after Social Services Minister Christian Porter promoted what was received as a fresh approach to welfare reform in his Tuesday speech to the National Press Club. […]

Labor promise more cash to lure airlines to Canberra

ANDREW Barr says a re-elected ACT Labor government will establish a new fund to attract more airline services to Canberra, adding more international destinations or low cost options. “Building on the successful co-operative marketing model […]

Clubs ACT takes issue with Labor’s small clubs policy

Clubs ACT CEO Gwyn Rees say yesterday’s announcement by ACT Labor regarding community clubs is a poorly thought through measure, which does not address the major threats to the future of local Clubs in the […]

A South by SouthEast festival for Canberra if Labor is returned

ANDREW Barr says a re-elected ACT Labor Government will bring a new winter festival to Canberra’s calendar. “The Canberra Arts Biennial will take place during the traditionally quieter winter months, and build on the contribution […]

Unregistered, unlicenced Turner woman ends up in the back of a Chisholm garden

A 31-year-old Turner woman will face the ACT Magistrates Court this morning (Friday 23 September) charged with several traffic offences. About 10am yesterday (Thursday 22 September 2016), police were conducting a mobile patrol when they […]

What’s on and where in the arts in Canberra this weekend

DISNEY’S “HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL” is a production that has always been a family favourite and is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year. PIED Piper Productions’ director Nina Stevenson says of her coming production, “under the […]

141 candidates off and racing for the 2016 ACT election

ACT Electoral Commissioner Phillip Green says one hundred and forty one candidates have been nominated to contest the 15 October ACT Legislative Assembly election. With the close of nominations yesterday Phillip publicly declared the nominations […]

Tahleasin Parker, Liddy Timmins and Natasha Verma

Socials / At the opening of the Artists Society of Canberra spring exhibition, Albert Hall

Photos by ANDREW FINCH

Canberra’s sex workers under attack

ACT Policing’s Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Team (SACAT) is currently conducting extensive investigations into a number of reports of violent sexual assaults against female sex workers within the ACT. Operation Sparren commenced in August […]

Leader of the Opposition Jeremy Hanson and Dean Seeley

Socials / Canberra Business Chamber lunch with Jeremy Hanson, Barton

Photos by ANDREW FINCH

‘Volleys’ to put a spring in the feet of Yass artists this weekend

AS SPRING ARRIVES in the Yass Valley, YASSarts eventsare taking off. Last weekend “Sculpture in the Paddock” opened at Cooma Cottage where, as wel as the outdoor show, there is also an exhibition inside the […]

Labor promises a package for small clubs

MICK Gentleman says Local community clubs will benefit from tax reforms under a re-elected ACT Labor Government. “The reforms will target those community clubs that are defined as small and medium sized, which is those […]

Greens to trial more varieties of environmentally friendly buses

THE ACT Greens have announced a major upgrade to Canberra’s bus fleet – pledging $132 million for more clean energy buses. The announcement follows a $57 million commitment from the Greens to improve Canberra’s bus […]

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