Canberra Close Up: Soraya Bazyar
Growing up as a Baha'i in Tehran Born in Iran's capital, Tehran, Soraya Bazyar's family were members of the minority Baha'i religion. "Because my father was an army officer, I had to travel," she told Alex Sloan on Canberra Close Up. "When I was around 12 or 13, my father had to go to the north of Iran. "I admire and miss the beauty of the north of Iran. The forests. The rice fields. The cotton fields. The sea. We used to travel to go beside the Caspian Sea in the north of Iran, and swim [ther..>> view originalCanberra region schools evacuated after more phone call bomb ...
ACT police outside Canberra's Lanyon High School last Tuesday, following a bomb threat. Photo: Rohan Thomson Hundreds of school students have been evacuated across the wider Canberra region after another wave of threatening phone calls.At least two schools in NSW and three in the ACT received phone calls on Thursday morning. Theodore Public School, Neville Bonner Public School and Forrest Public School also received threatening phone calls, ACT Public Schools..>> view originalMagnitude-3.2 earthquake recorded near Wee Jasper north-west of ...
Magnitude-3.2 earthquake recorded near Wee Jasper north-west of Canberra Posted February 10, 2016 16:56:56 A small earthquake has been recorded near Wee Jasper in southern New South Wales, and tremors have been felt as far away as Tuggeranong in Canberra's south.The magnitude-3.2 quake struck near Wee Jasper, north-west of Canberra, around 4:00pm."We think it's very shallow at this stage, less than five kilometres deep," Geoscience Australia senior seismologist Mark L..>> view originalCanberra's arts diary from February 12
Jenny Orchard collage and watercolour. Photo: Supplied Arts diary รข€“ February 12What's on in Canberra's art sceneVISUAL:Beaver Galleries: Drifting Past. An exploration of the physical world through photography and digital manipulation by Sophia Szilagyi. Living in the Clouds. Jenny Orchard presents a collection of ceramics and works on paper that express the connected nature of all life and matter. Both until February 28. Open Tuesday to Friday, 10am-5pm, Sa..>> view originalCanberra mornings: February 11, 2016
Black Mountain String Band launching the National Folk Festival, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary this year. Photo: Elesa Kurtz Taxpayers look set to be slugged $20 million to fit out a new office building in regional NSW for the Tax Office, despite the ATO still not being sure about what it will be used for.9.30am: Police say a crash on Barry Drive should not cause any further impacts to traffic.9.11am: ACT Ambulance paramedics transported the male ..>> view originalCanberra's NPL teams to boycott Canberra United Academy games
Canberra's NPL clubs say Capital Football chairman Mark O'Neill hasn't delivered on promises he's made. Photo: Graham Tidy Canberra National Premier League clubs are sick of being "given lip service" and will boycott playing Canberra United Academy teams until Capital Football action a deal they believe was struck in December.That boycott will include home-and-away games for premiership points if no action is taken.The eight club presidents sent a letter to t..>> view originalTreasury wants deputy secretaries to be able to work from outside ...
Treasury head John Fraser. Photo: Louie Douvis Treasury secretary John Fraser says advertising jobs as being based in Canberra is a huge barrier to sourcing the best talent for his department.In an Estimates hearing on Wednesday, Mr Fraser said he had spent a lot of time trying to recruit for a deputy secretary position inside and outside the public service but that "moving to Canberra was an issue"."That's why we're trying to make it so Melbourne or Sydney..>> view originalGang-gang. Ruins - the respectable pornography that Canberra lacks
Prototype 20 Royals note created as decimalisation loomed. Photo: Reserve Bank of Australia The way we (almost) were! With the 50th anniversary of the February 1966 introduction of decimal currency looming (it is on February 14) we bring you a picture of a prototype 20 royals banknote created by the Reserve Bank of Australia.Susan Winning, biographer of Canberran Neil Davey who was pivotal to the wonderfully successful conversion, reports that Davey recalle..>> view originalCanberra was unpopular too: Joyce
Barnaby Joyce is going ahead with a policy to shift Canberra-based agriculture research agencies. Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce has used the example of a once-unpopular Canberra to make his case for the relocation of a bunch of rural government agencies.Mr Joyce is pushing on with a controversial policy to shift Canberra-based agriculture research agencies to regional Australia.He's establishing offices for the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation in Dubbo, Toowoomba, Perth ..>> view originalCanberra district wine pioneer Edgar Riek dies aged 95
Edgar Riek at home in Ainslie in 2010. Photo: Andrew Sheargold Canberra district wine pioneer Edgar Riek OAM has died, aged 95.He has been remembered as a visionary who had a knack for choosing where to build a vineyard and an inspiration to winemakers in Canberra and beyond.Friends say Dr Riek suffered a serious head injury after falling on Monday afternoon. He was taken to Canberra Hospital, where he died on Wednesday. Dr E..>> view original
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
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