Northbourne plan welcome and timely says Canberra CBD Limited
A vision of future Canberra as proposed in the City and Gateway Urban Renewal Strategy. The ACT Government's discussion paper on reinvigorating Northbourne Avenue and the city centre could not have been better timed, Canberra CBD Ltd chief executive, Jane Easthope said.The long term Canberra resident, who blasted the unkempt state of Civic in an article in Sunday's Canberra Times, said Northbourne had never lived up to its promise as a grand entry to the n..>> view originalCanberra water park Big Splash left without power during hot ...
Big Splash was forced to close when the power went out. Photo: Jay Cronan In a cruel twist of fate, Canberra's only water park was forced to turn away customers on a mid-30s summer day during school holidays.Ron Watkins, manager of The Big Splash water park in Macquarie, said an unexpected power outage left him with no option but to disappoint about 400 customers before 11am on Tuesday.Temperatures are tipped to reach 34 degrees on Tuesday and Mr Watkins was ..>> view originalFirefighters praise community spirit in Canberra
Volunteer members of the Southern ACT Bushfire Brigade, based in Tharwa are Hannah Burggraaff, 20, of Kambah, left, and Kaylea Boulter, 23, of Monash. Photo: Graham Tidy The ACT Rural Fire Service believe community spirit is alive and well in Canberra after being inundated with volunteer applications this year. The services' chief officer Andrew Stark, who will depart for an interstate role in mid-February, said some stations have had surplus applications w..>> view originalCanberra sushi shops fined $41k over cockroach infestation, safety ...
The owner of a cockroach-infested sushi shop in Canberra has been fined $41,000.2011 raids on the Sizzle Bento and Roll-A-Sushi shops, owned by parent company World Fashion Food Pty Ltd, found a cockroach infestation, a dishwasher that recycled dirty water and food being defrosted and kept on the floor, the Canberra Times reports.Yesterday World Fashion Food was fined for serious health safety breaches in its two Woden stores. A follow-up raid on Sizzle Bento in September 2011 again uncovered a..>> view originalCanberra's Masters at Majura Park future uncertain after Woolworths ...
Video will begin in 5 seconds. Masters pain still building for Woolies Shareholders and the workforce are in for a rough time as Woolworths pulls the plug on its hardware chain Masters. PT1M54S 620 349 Woolworths' flawed strategy of opening giant hardware stores with the wrong personnel is to blame for the failure of its Masters Home Improvement stores, the founder of an ACT hardware chain says.The futures of Canberra's only Masters store at Majura Park and the five Home Timbe..>> view originalACT police warn of telephone tax scammers operating in Canberra
ACT police warn of telephone tax scammers operating in Canberra ACT Policing has warned Canberrans to be wary of a common scam operating in the area by callers pretending to be from the Australian Tax Office.Officers are investigating a "number of incidents" where people have been defrauded of amounts ranging from tens of thousands of dollars to a hundred thousand by scammers.Criminal Investigations Manager Response Sergeant Marcus Boorman said many of the incidents involved a similar approac..>> view originalCanberra prison hoping to go from Breaking Bad to baking bread
ACT Corrections Minister Shane Rattenbury, pictured in 2012, is hoping products baked at the prison's bakery will have niche appeal (Image: AAP) The ACT Government have announced plans to fit the territory's only prison with a bakery and commercial laundry in an attempt to put prisoners to work. ACT Corrections Minister Shane Rattenbury announced the ambitious $9 million proposal on Sunday, with the plans modelled on a similar program in place at Sydney's Long Bay jail. At first, the bakery wil..>> view originalUniting Church ministers face pension shock after being caught ...
Ron Reeson, a retired Canberra-based Uniting Church minister, says the pension cuts will be felt keenly. Photo: Jay Cronan More than 1200 retired Uniting Church ministers have been kicked off the age pension or had their payments slashed after being caught up in a government crackdown on former public servants claiming welfare payment.The churchmen and their widows have had their access to the Centrelink age pension drastically reduced as the government moves..>> view originalRaiders Legend Jason Croker To Play Nines
Posted: 18 January, 2016 by Triple M NRL Raiders Legend Jason Croker To Play Nines Raiders 300 game legend Jason Croker is set to dust off the boots Tags: Jason Croker, Canberra Raiders, Auckland Nines Jason Croker (R) of the Raiders fends Jerome Ropati in 2005 Photo: Getty Images After representing Australia at the World Nines in Fiji in 1997, Raiders 300 game legend Jason Croker is set to dust off the boots and make a c..>> view originalPolice fine more than 300 drivers for traffic offences during double ...
A roadside drug driving test. Sixteen Canberra drivers tested positive for drugged driving from 107 roadside mouth swab tests carried out. Photo: Rohan Thomson The number of Canberra motorists caught drink driving on ACT roads during the holidays remained stable, despite a significant fall in the number of breath tests police carried out compared to the previous year.Thirty-five motorists were nabbed driving alcohol-affected from 5928 random breath tests carr..>> view original
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