Kirklees Council joins national campaign to get more people cycling....
(Source: Kirklees Council) Kirklees is a great place to cycle, and with the partnership there will be even more opportunities to get out and about on a bike in the area - with Sky Ride Local, Breeze...
View ArticleFour more decades of print now in digital
For this morning's reader, the daily miracle of this morning's $2.80 Canberra Times is a jolly useful and entertaining thing. But for researchers (historians, say, and genealogists) this same edition...
View ArticleAsian Cup 2015 launches multicultural event (FFA - Football Federation...
(Source: FFA - Football Federation Australia Limited) The AFC Asian Cup Australia 2015 Local Organising Committee (LOC) today launched a program to engage Melbourne's multicultural communities ahead of...
View ArticleThe Ashes 2013: Australia captain Michael Clarke to see London specialist...
Michael Clarke will see a specialist in London tomorrow about the back trouble which forced him to miss Australia's Champions Trophy warm-up game today against India in Cardiff. Worrying times: Michael...
View Article'Yes' case in referendum receives $20m
Local government minister Anthony Albanese (left) and Labor colleagues arrive for the Australian Council of Local Government Awards dinner on Sunday. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen The campaign against...
View ArticleAustralia needs treaty to bury racist history
Eddie McGuire's controversial comments last week about using dual AFL Brownlow medallist Adam Goodes to promote the musical King Kong tap a long history of Australian racism. As white Australians we...
View Article'Yes' case in referendum receives $10. 5m federal funding
Local government minister Anthony Albanese (left) and Labor colleagues arrive for the Australian Council of Local Government Awards dinner on Sunday. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen The campaign against...
View ArticleCulture boost for Croydon could be a fine legacy (Croydon London Borough...
(Source: Croydon London Borough Council) Culture in Croydon could be set for a multimillion pound investment following the proposed sale of part of an antique Chinese ceramics collection. The council...
View ArticleMinister for Defence – Australia and India Defence Ministers’ Dialogue...
(Source: Australian Government) Today in Canberra I conducted a formal bilateral Defence Ministers' Dialogue with India's Minister of Defence, Mr A. K. Antony. Minister Antony arrived in Australia on...
View ArticleCensorship is stifling Australia's artistic freedom of expression
Challenging Australian artworks are being attacked and censored. If we are only permitted to view 'correct' works then art's primary function is destroyed Protest at the Linden Centre for Contemporary...
View ArticleHeart Of Glass (St Helens RFC Ltd)
(Source: St Helens RFC Ltd) SAINTS will be working with some of the biggest names in St Helens on an exciting new arts project. The Heart of Glass project, led by the Saints Community Development...
View ArticleWayne Swan: Australia needs to kick-start Republican debate
The Treasurer argues in a new book there should be a vote 'sooner rather than later' to decide the best model for a Republic Deputy prime minister and Treasurer Wayne Swan Photograph: Str/AFP/Getty...
View ArticleLaunch day of the Floral Pavilion Ambassadors, Volunteer Stewarding scheme...
(Source: Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council) New Brighton's Floral Pavilion Theatre and Conference Centre are now recruiting for a new volunteer stewarding scheme that could give you an exciting...
View ArticleIndia and Australia to Hold Defence Talks Today (PIB 5-6-2013) (Prime...
(Source: Prime Minister’s Office of India) On the second leg of his three-nation official visit, The Defence Minister AK Antony arrived in Perth from Singapore yesterday (Tuesday). Mr Antony was...
View ArticleSaving history reaps reward
Michael Pearson, AO Dr. Michael Pearson in front of the Amitabha Buddha, Kamakura, Japan. Photo: Supplied Noel Bissett, OAM Petronella Wensing, OAM Kris Macauley, AM Mike Callaghan, AM By collaborating...
View ArticleFairfax Australia unveils digital paywalls
Fairfax Australia is to introduce subscriptions for the digital versions of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age from next month, 18 years after the launch of the newspapers' websites. From July 2,...
View ArticleSwimming boss stood down for 'inappropriate comments'
Barclay Nettlefold with swimmers Matthew Targett and James Roberts during a press conference in Sydney in June. Photo: AP Swimming Australia has stood down its president Barclay Nettlefold after a...
View ArticleChanging the culture in the Australian military
It was one of the most important speeches in Australian military history, but not a word has been written about it. On an ear-bitingly cold day in New York this year, Australia's Army Chief,...
View ArticleStopping sexual harrassment in the Australian military
It was one of the most important speeches in Australian military history, but not a word has been written about it. On an ear-bitingly cold day in New York this year, Australia's Army Chief,...
View ArticleA timely halt to the war within
It was one of the most important speeches in Australian military history, but not a word has been written about it. On an ear-bitingly cold day in New York this year, Australia's Army Chief,...
View ArticleScorching increase in bushfire danger
Canberra could be facing a nearly 70 per cent increase in dangerous bushfire weather in less than seven years as the result of climate change, according to Australia's Climate Commission. The report,...
View ArticleAfghan women must be top of Australia’s agenda (Amnesty International)
(Source: Amnesty International) Amnesty International says the threat of a return to the brutality of the Taliban era means the plight of Afghan women should be a foreign policy focus of all three...
View ArticleProbe into president's comments
Stood down ... Swimming Australia president Barclay Nettlefold earlier this year. Photo: Joe Armao Swimming Australia has stood down its president, Barclay Nettlefold, after a second allegation was...
View ArticleAustralia defeats New Zealand in shoot-out (AOC - Australian Olympic...
(Source: AOC - Australian Olympic Committee Inc) Australia defeats New Zealand in shoot-out 17 June 2013 Listen © Stefan Postles/Getty Images Football: The Australian women's football team claimed the...
View ArticleSuccess for Vivid but lingering fears over censorship
Relationship between Destination NSW and Reportage strained over continuing breach of contract allegations Andrew Quilty's photograph of the aftermath of a bushfire was pulled from Reportage's outdoor...
View ArticleInstitutes to join forces for war centenary
Canberra's cultural institutions are expected to make a joint effort to promote the national capital during the centenary of the First World War. They will encourage visitors from Melbourne and Sydney...
View ArticleOdisha’s katha in colour
Not of India’s north, not of its south, not lurchingly eastward enough, Odisha does not lie at the end of a directional arrow. It cannot be geographically ‘fixed’. It is a place in itself, historically...
View ArticleToot toot for rail folly
So Andrew Barr has shackled us with a $254 million black hole. Gee, we can fix that in one fell swoop. Why doesn't young Andrew grab a tin cup and knock on every door in Canberra and ask for a $700...
View ArticleAustralian Social Trends - ABS Celebrates Canberra's Centenary (Media...
(Source: ABS - Australian Bureau of Statistics) MEDIA RELEASE 29 May 2013 Embargo: 11.30 am (Canberra Time) 94/2013 ABS Celebrates Canberra's Centenary In celebration of Canberra's centenary, the...
View ArticleMartin Ferguson's resignation speech
Labor MP Martin Ferguson tells parliament he won't context the September election. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen Martin Ferguson AM MP – Speech to the House of Representatives – Wednesday 29 May 2013 I wish...
View ArticleSeselja set for big campaign and even bigger clan
Zed Seselja and wife Ros, who is 27 weeks pregnant with their fifth child, at home with their four children Olivia, 5, Michael, 13, Tommy, 11, and William, 7. Photo: Melissa Adams Leaving the ACT...
View ArticleSeriously, ribbons and sugar means business
President of the ACT Cake Decorators Society, Floss Aitchison, is getting ready for the society's open day by baking a special Centenary cake. Photo: Katherine Griffiths It may be all about sugar and...
View ArticlePlanning to cope with changes
ACT's new chief planner, Dorte Ekelund outside her office in Dickson, Canberra. Photo: Melissa Adams INSTEAD of wearing her heart on her sleeve, the territory's chief planner, Dorte Ekelund, wears a...
View ArticleA matter of degrees
More than 25,000 year 12 students will have the opportunity to study at university next year, but will they be on the right course? Photo: Marina Neil In October, more than 50,000 Victorian year 12...
View ArticleCall to honour indigenous servicemen
Next year's Anzac centenary is a chance to belatedly recognise the efforts of Aboriginal servicemen during both world wars, Australian War Memorial council member Graham Edwards believes. Aborigines...
View ArticleTony Abbott transcript - Address to the NSW Liberal Party State Council,...
(Source: Liberal Party of Australia) 01/06/13 EO&E........................................................................................................................................... Thank...
View Article$900,000 push to lift tourism
Australian Capital Tourism director Ian Hill. The organisation is spending close to $1 million to attracts tourists to Canberra over the winter. Photo: Rohan Thomson Australian Capital Tourism is...
View ArticleAustralia gets 'deluge' of US secret data, prompting a new data facility
Australian intelligence agencies are receiving ''huge volumes'' of ''immensely valuable'' information from the United States including through the controversial PRISM program, Fairfax Media can reveal....
View ArticleDefence Minister Antony arrives in Australia on maiden visit
Melbourne, June 04: Seeking to enhance India's military ties with Australia, Defence Minister AK Antony arrived in Perth on Tuesday on a historic visit to co-chair a bilateral security dialogue amid...
View ArticleWeekend fun in Canberra
The Great Gatsby (M): Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) moves to New York and gets caught up in the extravagant world of his mysterious, wealthy neighbour Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio). 2D and 3D....
View ArticleBloomsday takes on a global accent
EVERY year, on June 16, dedicated people around the world dress in Edwardian finery and head off to particular watering holes, there to join other groups and individuals similarly decked out in big...
View ArticleNo verse? Quite the re-verse
Canberra's own Timomatic. Photo: Getty Images A recent Gang-Gang column thundered that in this centenary year not nearly enough original verse was being written about Canberra. Among the ears that...
View ArticleWind harmonises at launch
Chanel Cole at the Voices in the Forest launch at the Margaret Whitlam Pavilion at the National Arboretum. Photo: Katherine Griffiths The wind sighed, moaned and sometimes even shrilled around the...
View ArticleGreat War Dundee (Dundee City Council)
(Source: Dundee City Council) A BID TO fund a job in Dundee planning and promoting events relating to the commemoration of World War One could be made in the next few weeks. Organisations across Dundee...
View ArticleSkywhale makes splash in WA culture pool
Click to play video Return to video Video settings Please Log in to update your video settings Video will begin in 5 seconds. Don't play Play now More video Recommended Click to play video Women mauled...
View ArticleBigger picture: Lasek takes on Australia Day
The man behind Canberra's ''very big year'' has turned his sights to Australia Day. Centenary of Canberra executive director Jeremy Lasek was named on Friday as the new chief executive of the National...
View ArticleAustralia plans giant Buddha and baccarat to lure Chinese tourists to...
Australia’s coastal Wyong region outside Sydney, a pretty stretch of pristine beaches and wildlife-filled wetlands, isn’t high on the travel agenda of most Chinese tourists. But the local mayor and a...
View ArticleAustralia launches online enrolment for voters
CANBERRA, June 17 (Xinhua) -- Australian Special Minister of State Mark Dreyfus on Monday launched the online enrolment and urged voters to take advantage of this new tablet- and mobile- friendly...
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