“DIWALI is like Christmas. We exchange gifts and sweets, it’s an exciting family time,” says Deepak-Raj Gupta, president of the Canberra India Council. KATE MEIKLE explains all things Diwali on Page 18.
Experienced car dealer DAVID ROLFE reckons his company’s rates in Phillip will have jumped 100 per cent in three years – a grinding rise that seriously threatens the Melrose Drive motor trade.
“WHAT will it take to change the planning regimes before too much damage is done and older suburbs lose their historic character?” wonders Canberra Matters columnist PAUL COSTIGAN
JON STANHOPE was maligned by a flack from Shane Rattenbury’s office. With devastating effectiveness, the former chief minister unpicks the current minister’s integrity on Page 10.
WE seem to be a city of ferment at the moment. This week our columnists and contributors analyse what’s amiss with planning, heritage, trees, land deals and dangerous dogs.
LIBERAL MLA Jeremy Hanson will host next month’s “Steve Doszpot Memorial Charity Trivia Night” to fulfil a promise to his dying friend. Every cent raised will go to liver cancer research. The story is on […]
“ANDREW, Shane, Yvette and the rest have ordained that it’s a south-facing, two-bedroom flat on the tenth floor for those aspiring homeowners who used to be Labor’s traditional base,” growls JON STANHOPE
“A more and more autocratic government is turning Canberra into a poor copy of Melbourne,” says MICHAEL MOORE in a damning look at local planning.
IS this Canberra’s worst public toilet? Reader MAL BARNETT is grumpy about the state of Bowen Park’s toilets in Kingston.
BARR’S outburst must, at the very least, have his Labor Party colleagues wondering if they should remove him from the leadership and the head of the ACT government, writes MICHAEL MOORE
ART reviewer JOHNNY MILNER is moved to describe the executed Myuran Sukumaran’s paintings as “wonderful” with a real connection to life.
“The ACT Labor Party is basically a gambling business. Through associated companies it, in effect, has the licences to a large proportion of Canberra’s poker machines.” The MICHAEL MOORE column, Page 9
FORMER chief minister JON STANHOPE says, in politics, what goes around comes around and offers a warning for the risk-taking ACT government.
At 33, Canberra-based Big Bash cricketer Jono Dean wonders if his role with the season-winning Adelaide Strikers will evolve into a sixth season with the team. He shares his worries with TIM GAVEL
Singer-guitarist José Feliciano reveals some surprises to arts editor HELEN MUSA ahead of his Canberra concert.
DID she? Didn’t she? Ada Bunfield found herself in the dock after her teacher husband met his untimely end, the victim of strychnine poisoning, writes “Yesterdays” columnist NICHOLE OVERALL
A BLACK Yamaha motorcycle was travelling north on Yamba Drive when it collided with another vehicle turning from Yamba Drive into Dookie Street, Farrer, this morning (November 16). Emergency services blocked the road following the […]
TWO faculties from the University of Canberra are providing support for drought-affected rural communities, with a caravan of researchers leaving tomorrow (Saturday, November 17) for the pilot of the “Creative Arts and Rural Health Initiative” […]
A NGUNNAWAL woman, 30, has allegedly used the internet to bring drugs to Canberra through the postal system. Police searched the woman’s home after a package was given to police earlier in the year, which […]
TRAFFIC was brought to a halt on Thursday (November 15) when a man suddenly stopped his ute on William Slim Drive, got out and struck a white Toyota Camry a number of times. It was […]
MORE than 1200 cases of fraud have been reported in Canberra this year, says ACT Policing, as International Fraud Awareness Week comes to an end tomorrow (November 17). Acts of fraud cost the world about $3.7 […]
