Canberra Australia Day Long Weekender: What's on January 22-26 and other top stories.

• Canberra Australia Day Long Weekender: What's on January 22-26

  

  There will be green and gold-laden activities all over Canberra for Australia Day celebrations. Photo: Melissa Adams All weekend Advertisement CANCON 2016 Canberra Wargames Society hosts Cancon 2016 at Exhibition Park in Canberra, Mitchell, Friday to Monday, with board games, card games, fantasy role-playing tournaments, retail stalls and more. Entry for spectators is free. Games Library is $10 a person, 12-plus years old. cgs.asn.au/cancon/  Friday, Janua..

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• A 2016 Canberra musical calendar

  

  Salut! Baroque brings music from Handel, Bach and Mozart. Photo: Supplied It's just about the end of January and if you haven't already marked your calendar with 2016's top music events from our own Canberra groups and artists, I'm going to give you suggestions of unmissable events from February right through to December.On February 5, at 7.30pm, at Albert Hall, Salut! Baroque celebrates the liberation of the voice, no longer heard only with others in choral ..

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• NRL: Canberra Raiders appoint Bronwyn Fagan as their second ...

  

  Bronwyn Fagan is the second female board member of the Canberra Raiders. Photo: Graham Tidy Sliding head-first at breakneck speed down an ice track can prepare you for almost anything.But new Canberra Raiders board member Bronwyn Fagan is about to find out whether that includes the inner workings of a professional rugby league club.Fagan became just the second female on the Raiders board when her position was officially ratified on Thursday night.She joins Ra..

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• Singapore Airlines deal makes Canberra an international airport

  

  When businessman Terry Snow bought the ACT's airport in the late 1990s, he ambitiously labelled it Canberra International Airport.   "We cut it out recently because it was a bit of a joke. But we called ourselves the international airport because that was our aspiration and we had no chance in hell of achieving it, we didn't think."   But with constant persistence and lobbying from the Capital Territory Government, Canberra's toe is peeping through the international flight door.   Singapore Air..

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• Canberra mornings: January 22, 2016

  

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• Severe thunderstorm warning for Canberra: Damaging winds and ...

  

  Severe thunderstorm warning for Canberra: Damaging winds and large hail hit ACT Cars splashing through the deluge on Thursday afternoon. Photo: Rohan Thomson Damaging winds and hailstones hit Canberra on Thursday afternoon as severe thunderstorms moved east from Burrinjuck Dam and Wee Jasper.The ACT State Emergency Service received 59 calls for help as of 6pm. None have involved major injuries or damage.The storm reached Belconnen, Canberra Civic, Hall, Gun..

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• Canberra United players surrender mobiles to fight corruption

  

  Canberra United players are asked to hand in their mobile phones as soon as they arrive at grounds on W-League game day. Photo: Jeffrey Chan The fight against corruption in sport has spread to the W-League this season, with Canberra United players having their mobile phones locked in a metal box at games to protect the game from potential illegal activity.As match-fixing claims engulf tennis, the W-League is now in line with the Football Federation Australia'..

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• Holy activated almonds! Canberra's The Merrymaker Sisters are ...

  

  The Merrymaker Sisters, Carla, left and Emma Papas at their Canberra home this week. The have given up a strict paleo diet for a more relaxed way of eating and living. Photo: Graham Tidy  It might be enough to make Pete Evans choke on his cauliflower rice - Canberra's The Merrymaker Sisters are giving up the strict paleo diet.Carla and Emma Papas have built careers and a huge social media following by blogging recipes and advice which included advocating a pa..

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• Gang-gang. Orlando shows Canberra street art that needs no ...

  

  "Rosie" the statuesque Rosenberg's Monitor stands guard on Mt Ainslie. Photo: Matthew Higgins. Canberra's all-conquering Nick Kyrgios is a certainty to win the men's singles final at the Australian Open on Sunday week. What if we celebrate with a giant image of him projected on to a prominent Canberra space?There is an exciting Australian precedent for such a thing. Unforgettably, a mammoth Todd Carney was projected on to a granite pillar of the Sydney Harbou..

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• Canberra classic has us buzzing

  

  There's no doubt that Wednesday night's win over India at Manuka Oval was one of the best that I've been involved with as an Australia player, given the circumstances we found ourselves in and the top-shelf quality of our opposition. It wasn't looking great for us when India were 1-277 and them needing 72 to win at less than a run per ball. You generally see a batting side get home quite easily from that position, but great credit to our boys and their 'never-say-die' attitude. We were able to ..

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