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Canberra is hosting several exciting events to help celebrate World Environment Day on 5 June. A particular focus will be on raising much-needed funds and to become more informed about the dire situation bears and orangutans are facing. Saving bears and orangutans is reaching crisis point – orangutans could be extinct in the wild in [...]...

According to the Australian Securities and Investment Commission, half of Australian’s will die without a will.  Half?  That’s a bit hard to believe really.  I didn’t have a will until I was in my 30s and had my first child, but there wouldn’t have been anything to argue over or remedy so I wasn’t too [...]...

A private landholder will today, Monday 26 May, 2014, weather permitting, conduct a agricultural burn on the property “The Rivers”, Uriarra Road, near the Lower Molonglo Treatment works. The burn is expected to be approximately 40 hectares in size and smoke will be visible from the Belconnen and Stromlo Park areas. The Health Directorate advises that people [...]...

[ 29 May, 2014; 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] The ACT Law Reform Advisory Council (LRAC) has been asked by the ACT Attorney-General to inquire into the scope and operation of the Discrimination Act 1991 (ACT). As part of its inquiry, LRAC has prepared a Consultation Paper, which is available at http://bit.ly/LRACDiscrim. Community members are invited to attend a Community Consultation Forum this Thursday 29...

ACT Policing is seeking information from the public after a man armed with a knife entered a shop at the Campbell Shops yesterday afternoon (Sunday, 25 May) and stole the cash register. Around 2:50pm, a man brandishing a large knife entered the shop at the shopping complex on Blamey Place, Campbell and made demands for cash. The [...]...

There was a fair amount of excitement between myself and my husband and our dining companions (we all find it pretty hard to get out) over dinner plans last week. We got ourselves into a flap over which of the hip and trendy (I suspect I give away something of my age by using [...]...

Next month’s ACT Budget will contain measures to help businesses employ more people, and strategies to help public servants laid off by the Commonwealth into new businesses and entrepreneurship. We will be targeting measures at the different demographics leaving the public service – younger people and people near retirement – to encourage them to stay in [...]...

ACT Policing caught a Learner driver and their supervising licensed driver both impaired by alcohol while driving in Kambah last Thursday (May 22). About 7.50pm, Tuggeranong Patrol officers conducted a traffic stop on a silver Hyundai Excel sedan travelling on Athllon Drive, Kambah. A roadside breath test was conducted with the driver, a 20-year-old Rivett woman [...]...

The ACT Government has its eye on the survival of local small business and life after the public sector for potential redundancy waves likely to hit the Capital in coming months – with a $4.4 million package of business initiatives aimed at growing the economy and creating jobs. The package is part of a larger investment [...]...

This winter snow will be falling in the ACT, with an iconic attraction restarting snowmaking after a 10 year hiatus. Corin Forest will be opening a snow play area less than an hour from the heart of Canberra, bringing a real winter experience closer than any other city in Australia. Following its reopening on Boxing Day with new [...]...

New research has found that Australian roundabouts are some of the most dangerous in the world for bikes; and Canberra’s cyclists agree, according to the Canberra Times. Data released by Austroads on Thursday found that multi-lane roundabouts (which find cars travelling at reasonably high speed) are a deterrent to cyclists due to safety fears. As Australian roundabouts [...]...

I need to send a few small gifts to family in England and want to get something Australian, whilst avoiding the tacky nastiness around.  I will unfortunately miss the Kingston Markets today, but does anyone have any suggestions of somewhere selling nice locally made gifts for kids and adults (not too $$$ or heavy…)? ...