HUMAN rights and social justice advocate Tom Calma is the Senior Australian of the Year for 2023 and the second consecutive ACT nominee to win the award.
A Transport Canberra bus and a dark-blue Volkswagen Golf collided at the intersection of Drakeford Drive and Hurtle Avenue, Bonython at about 5.45pm on Monday.
Police searches in Torrens and Greenway yesterday (January 24) found stolen chainsaws, tools, firearm parts, drugs, ammunition and unlawfully obtained firewood, and brought two men to court for allegedly vandalising endangered trees.
The ACT's first zero-emissions bus has hit the road, with 11 more battery electric buses to begin operating in the coming weeks, and procurement to purchase 90 more underway.
"This was close to the most intense fire activity ever recorded. We saw a black sky in the afternoon, we saw pyrogenic lightning and we saw black hail." RICK McRAE was at the centre of the fight against the terrible bushfire of 2003.
"Imagine Canberra today with part of the money spent on the Spanish tram invested in e-buses and the rest in essential public services, such as health, housing, schools, the police, etcetera," writes Prof BEATRICE BODART-BAILEY.
Canberra remains the most expensive Australian city for people on low incomes to rent, according to the Productivity Commission’s latest Report on Government Services and ACTCOSS is very unhappy.
Canberra Business Chamber has urged the ACT government not to expand the portable long-service scheme. "It's another blow at the worst possible time,” says CEO Graham Catt.
A two-vehicle accident on the intersection of Hindmarsh Drive and Streeton Drive in Stirling today (January 24) is forcing the closure of the whole intersection with emergency services on scene.
Canberra's first "Lights on the Lake" show is set to be the highlight of Australia Day celebrations this week. "Lights on the Lake" will begin on January 25 and run until January 28.