Free city bus loop service launched in Canberra
Free city bus loop service launched in Canberra By Jana Black Updated July 04, 2016 17:04:30 Catching the bus around Canberra's city centre will be easier and a whole lot cheaper after a new free city loop began operating today.The service has been launched under the rebranded Transport Canberra Directorate.The loop will run every 15 minutes and will include employment hubs as well the city's major arterial roads, with stops at Australian National University, the ..>> view originalCanberra businesses ordered to pay $16000 to shortchanged workers
The ACT's unions have warned of widespread exploitation of vulnerable workers as an audit revealed as many as one in four Canberra businesses did not pay their workers correctly. The warning comes after 19 Canberra businesses were made to hand over more than $16,000 in back pay to 24 employees who had been short changed, on the back of a damning Fair Work Ombudsman audit. Nineteen Canberra businesses have been ordered to pay $16,000 to 24 workers who had been shortchanged. Photo: Jessica..>> view originalFooty gods reward Canberra Raiders' Blake Austin for random act of ...
Blake Austin attempts a field goal which led to Jordan Rapana's match-winning try against Newcastle. Photo: Getty Images Blake Austin grew up in western Sydney, where nothing was handed to him on a silver platter.So when the Canberra star saw a woman with a disability decked out in Raiders gear waiting for a bus on his way to a game, it brought back memories of his childhoodFox Sports reported the five-eighth gave mad Raiders fan Jane, who lives by herself, ..>> view originalCanberra weather: Rainy start to July follows wettest June on record
Seagulls perch on a floating log, waiting for the morning fog to clear at Kingston Foreshore. Photo: Anthony Croke Canberrans still wringing themselves out from the wettest June on record shouldn't put away their gumboots just yet.After the deluge swept in by the massive east coast low helped to smash a rain record that's stood in the ACT for half a century, more of the wet stuff is expected in the capital from Tuesday.The Canberra Airport weather station rec..>> view originalCanberra United's Lydia Williams and Michelle Heyman make ...
Michelle Heyman celebrated her 27th birthday with a spot in the Matildas Olympic squad. Photo: Getty Images It could have been the worst birthday ever, but instead it was one of the best when Matildas striker Michelle Heyman's Olympic dream officially came true.She was never going to allow a "little bug" like the Zika virus get in the way of realising that dream and now she's determined to make history and return with a medal.Heyman was one of two Canberra Un..>> view originalWhere and how long were the longest voting queues in Canberra on ...
The fact "queue" was trending on twitter in Canberra on Saturday is no surprise, given the Australian Electoral Commission's apology for unusually long waits at federal election polling stations throughout the country.But it appears that in the capital, most of the frustration splashed across social media was sparked by hour-long waits at Old Parliament House, Ainslie School, Ngunnawal and Watson. Voters line up at Majura Primary School. Photo: Jamila Toderas One voter at Ainslie tweeted..>> view originalwitness who lied to trade union royal commission jailed for perjury
A Canberra man who lied to the trade union royal commission has been jailed for three months. Tuungafasi Manase, of Evatt, was charged with perjury after he gave evidence at the commission's ACT hearing in July last year. Tuungafasi Manase gives evidence at the trade union royal commission. Photo: Screenshot Part of his evidence concerned a handwritten note that detailed a list of payments made by his former boss, formwork contractor Elias Taleb, to construction union organiser Halafih..>> view originalGang-gang. Only in Canberra: cricket's frost delays
Voting when the polling place first opened on Saturday morning (so that the joy of putting Zed Seselja last, for his opposition to marriage equality, would last all day) it was Icelandically cold. Your columnist's numb fingers struggled to hold the AEC pencil with which I was spelling out Zed's doom.Outdoors around the polling place the frosty paddocks and roofs bore an uncanny resemblance to Reykjavik at Christmas. Snow starts play. Cricket on a New Zealand glacier. "This reminds me," I..>> view originalWe're getting worse when it comes to Canberra school children ...
Canberra's school children are eating better and drinking less sugary drinks, but we're going backwards when it comes to getting them exercising enough.At least four in five primary school children don't do the recommended amount of physical activity and a quarter are overweight or obese. Canberra's school children are eating better and drinking less sugary drinks but we're going backwards when it comes to getting them exercising enough. A progress report on the Government's Healthy Weig..>> view originalMeet the ACT's new agency: from light rail to cleaning the graffiti off ...
The ACT’s new Transport Canberra and City Services Directorate officially began operating Friday, bringing together public transport and the municipal services that are mostly provided by local government elsewhere. Director-general Emma Thomas was initially recruited to manage the construction and operation of Canberra’s forthcoming light rail project through the stand-alone Capital Metro Agency. But late last year the government asked her to lead a new public transport directorate that would ..>> view original
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