Digital edition 18 August
POLITICAL columnist MICHAEL MOORE thinks the chief statistician should be commended rather than pilloried for courageously closing the ABS website on census night. Fellow columnist JOHN GRIFFITHS is not so sure.
POLITICAL columnist MICHAEL MOORE thinks the chief statistician should be commended rather than pilloried for courageously closing the ABS website on census night. Fellow columnist JOHN GRIFFITHS is not so sure.
QUEENSLAND's Dami Im took the country, if not the world, by storm when she sang her way to runner-up in this year's Eurovision Song Contest. In her pre-concert interview with arts editor HELEN MUSA she talks about opera, karaoke and shares a musical secret.
HUGH PITTY, of Bega, has written this week’s Grumpy column, sad at the closing of Canberra’s “best budget bed and breakfast” accommodation, Victor Lodge in Kingston.
HERE’S an interesting statistic that ClubsACT has come across: 30 ACT community clubs buy meat-tray raffle prizes worth $1.8 million a year. But the thinking is that the meat trays, the local butcher shops and the people who work in them are imperiled if the ACT government gives in to the casino on poker machines. This and more in CANBERRA CONFIDENTIAL.
JOHN GRIFFITHS spends a lunchtime in Civic watching the high-pressure sales techniques of the transient charity muggers – chuggers – in Civic; this week’s Grumpy columnist COLIN DALTON, of Harrison, is sick of Canberra’s untidy streetscapes and our snapper ANDREW FINCH gets a selfie with an amorous llama!
NEVER mind the light rail, Canberra has been arguing about railways for decades, reveals local historian NICHOLE OVERALL. Elsewhere, MICHAEL MOORE is unhappy about property developers dictating our future, JOHN GRIFFITHS steps up to defend the maligned Haig Park and CEDRIC BRYANT says it’s time to starting planning spring bulbs.
TEN-year-old Emmaus Christian School student Jack Best is about to lose his hair, but for a good cause. He did it last year and raised $1902 for the Leukaemia Foundation in honour of his unwell 85-year-old grandad. This year his bonnet comes off at the school’s Crazy Hair Day on March 10. The story’s in CANBERRA CONFIDENTIAL.
“COME the summer and the exodus is almost biblical; in days of yore, traffic would be gridlocked all the way over Queanbeyan's old timber bridge,” writes local historian and journalist NICHOLE OVERALL in her first column for us. This week she reflects on Canberra’s summer stampede to the south coast.
FORMER Chief Minister JON STANHOPE predicts the issues that will influence the outcome of October’s…
“A very merry Christmas, And a happy New Year, Let’s hope it's a good one…
DINING reviewer WENDY JOHNSON was enjoying lunch in Civic, until they started stacking the chairs…