Tag Archives: Parliament House

Triangular coin salutes House birthday

AUSTRALIA’S first triangular coin has been unveiled to mark today’s 25th anniversary of Parliament House. The silver $5 coin is 99.9% silver and depicts Australian Parliament House as viewed from one of its courtyards. The world renowned triangular flag mast is the focal point of the design. A limited 10,000 of the coins have been minted. A special [...]

Beccy to protest parenting cash cuts

AS a single mother struggling to make ends meet for almost a decade, Beccy Walker, of Cook, is used to saying “no.”  “When my two boys have school excursions, or if they want to play a sport outside of school, I just can’t afford it,” she says. “It’s humiliating telling a school your kids can’t [...]

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Award ‘coup’ for Canberra

FOR the first time in nearly 30 years, Canberra will host the Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism gala dinner at Parliament House on Friday, November 30. The awards will adopt a Centenary of Canberra theme, says Chief Minister Katy Gallagher. “The Walkley Awards is the most prestigious event for Australia’s media industry and to be [...]

Disconnecting you now…

TWENTY four and counting… that’s the quiet headcount of redundancies to date as Transact’s corporate functions inevitably get vacuumed into the vortex of its new Perth-based owner iiNet. Despite the warm-glow promises of no changes for a couple of years, the Sandgropers are putting an economic bowling ball through the white collars in Dickson. A [...]